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Thank you for visiting the Protect Our Planet bag website. Dedicated to raise awareness on natural preservation, we strive to not only give information, but also (be a forum and) encourage how to make actual positive contributions to this growing concern.

Waste problem will continuously and constantly haunt the citizens of the world, as it has for as long as hazardous materials been used, if not prevented by the users themselves. By clicking into this page you have made a step towards participating in reducing waste, plastic in particular. To go further please click on to the next pages…

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Founded by the organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network (EDN) promotes environmental citizenship and year round progressive action worldwide.

Earth Day Network is a driving force steering environmental awareness around the world. Through Earth Day Network, activists connect, interact, and have an impact on their communities, and create positive change in local, national, and global policies. EDN’s international network reaches over 17,000 organizations in 174 countries, while the domestic program engages 5,000 groups and over 25,000 educators coordinating millions of community development and environmental protection activities throughout the year. Earth Day is the only event celebrated simultaneously around the globe by people of all backgrounds, faiths and nationalities. More than a half billion people participate in our campaigns every year.

Our mission is to grow and diversify the environmental movement worldwide, and to mobilize it as the most effective vehicle for promoting a healthy, sustainable planet. We pursue our mission through education, politics, events, and consumer activism. Follow the link for further details…here

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• The raw material of plastic bags is oil. Therefore, the more we use plastic bags, the more we waste oil - a non-renewable energy source.
• The petroleum-based plastic bags take decades to break down, so if they are not recycled they litter. It creates visual pollution: in the streets, on the beaches etc. Also, they can clog roadside drains, which could cause street flooding during heavy rainfall.
• Plastic bags can be recycled but it rarely happens: according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, only 1% of plastic bags were recycled in 2000, against twenty percent for paper bags.
• They endanger wildlife and particularly sea life such as sea turtles and dolphins which can die of entanglement, suffocation, and ingestion because they assume that these bags are jellyfish.

What is being done

For the past few years, there has been rising international awareness regarding the damaging and dangerous impact on the environment of plastic bags. Governments all over the world have decided to get involved in that particular issue: Some governments have decided to ban them: Bangladesh, Bhutan and Zanzibar.Plastic bags should no more be given for free in China from June 1st. These bags are surcharged in Germany, South Africa, Ireland and Israel. Several countries try and promote, trough major retailers, the use of cloth bags, paper bags or grocery bags: United Kingdom (with Tesco), France (with Carrefour), New Zeland.

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This is a movement about change, as individuals, as a country, and as a global community. Join the supporters of the Stop Global Warming Virtual March, and become part of the movement to demand our leaders freeze and reduce carbon dioxide emissions now. We are all contributors to global warming and we all need to be part of the solution

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With about a hundred million stars and two hundred million galaxies, Sky in Google Earth lets you explore the heavens like never before.

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More than 200 leading climate scientists have warned the United Nations Climate Conference of the need to act immediately to cut greenhouse gas emissions, with a window of only 10-15 years for global emissions to peak and decline, and a goal of at least a 50 percent reduction by 2050.

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The Asian Productivity Organization has been conducting various activities related to the environment over the past ten years with a view to increasing environmental consciousness and promoting policy, technology and knowledge on the protection and improvement of the environment among its member countries. However, measures taken by factories and farms in the region are often not satisfactory for solving environmental problems in spite of ever-growing awareness on the issue. The reasons for this are probably because conventional waste treatment technologies tend to impose a net cost on industries and thus erode their competitiveness.
Inspired by the developments during 1992 such as the Earth Summit in Rio and the Agenda 21, the APO launched its Special Program for the Environment in 1994 under a special grant from the Japanese government. In an endeavor to find practical and attractive approaches for industries to deal with both productivity and environmental protection for sustainable development, the APO has decided to tackle the issue with the concept of Green Productivity (GP). In concrete terms, GP aims at instituting a better environment in the process of increasing productivity thus lending a competitive edge to the businesses in the age of globalization.
To substantiate the GP concept, the APO has adopted a multi-dimensional micro-to-macro approach to promote GP practices. It focuses on the enterprise level through the applications of productivity and management tools (such as TQM, 5S, TPM etc.) that are in tandem with waste and emission prevention, energy conservation, pollution control, and Environmental Management Systems (EMS). Initially taking off from the industrial sector, the GP is now being increasingly applied to agriculture, service industry and the even communities. GP is thus evolving as a drive with comprehensive strategies for sustainable socio-economic development.
Over the last several years, the APO has actively promoted the concept of Green Productivity throughout the region through the forms of demonstration projects, information dissemination, and promotional missions. APO has established partnerships with NPOs and various industrial development organizations around the region.
The APO initiated a research survey in late 1998 to study the state of GP implementation in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and Japan. The specific research goals were to review the existing national efforts to promote GP and GP-related approaches; compile case studies of GP implementation in SMEs and analyze barriers to further adoption of GP practices; and provide recommendations on how to further develop GP in the region. Click on Green productivity in the blog roll for more infos.

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