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Ms. Valeria MerinoVice President for Global Earth Day

USACE

Ms. Karen Baker

Chief Environmental Division, HQUSACE

Sheri Moore

Environmental Community of Practice Integrator

EARTH DAY WEBINAR WITH THE EARTH DAY NETWORK

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19 APR 2018

Earth Day Network:End Plastic Pollution

2018

EARTH DAY

• The First Earth Day – April 22 1970, is recognized as the birth of the modern environmental movement.

• The First Earth Day led to the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts, as well as the creation of the EPA.

• Largest secular observance in the world, celebrated by over 1 billion people every year.

• One day every year that leads to human behavior changes and pushes for policy changes.

• Earth Day is Every Day.

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Why should we care about plastic pollution?

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Plastic Pollution Facts - Production

http://www.plastics.gl/market/plastics-the-facts-2014/

Plastic Pollution Facts – The Oceans

Plastic Pollution Facts - Health

Overall impact of plastic pollution

Do you know how many plastic items you use and discard in a year?

Let’s use a Plastic Pollution Calculator to find out:

https://www.earthday.org/plastic-calculator/

Can we do something about it?

End Plastic Pollution and Earth Day 2018

Our goal is for Earth Day 2018 to be a pivotal moment that changes the

human attitude and behavior concerning plastics, catalyzes action to significantly reduce plastic pollution,

and positioning it as a major environmental and transnational

problem.

One person can make a difference!

REDUCE

REUSE

REFUSE

RECYCLE

REMOVE

Our Plan of Action• Create and promote the creation of

content about Plastic Pollution to educate and support people and organizations that want to act

• Conduct Government Strategic Outreach• Promote the Development of Institutional

and Legal Frameworks to End Plastic Pollution

• Position Plastic Pollution with the global media and increase relevant coverage of the problem

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PLASTIC POLLUTION CALCULATOR

• What are your scores? Use the webinar tools to post.

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Discussion

• Questions?

• What can you do?

• What can we do?

• Make this presentation your own; we’ll provide after the webinar.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR USACE / PERSONNEL

• We want to see how we can support the “End Plastic Pollution” Campaign leading up to Earth Day 2020

• Reinvigorating the “Green Teams” at the Districts / Divisions with EDN’s help

o EDN-customized train-the-trainers Sessions (3x45 min)

o Materials for trainer-hosted brown bags

o Friendly competition to elicit ideas for how we as an organization can make small or large changes to our operations, from the full spectrum of operations

• Individually, the EDN can connect you with projects or campaigns that you are passionate about.

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THANK YOU!

Thank you for contributing to #EndPlasticPollution

For further information and questions please contact:

Valeria MerinoVice President for Global Earth [email protected]

To receive more information register:

https://earthdaynetwork.salsalabs.org/joinearthdaynetworksemaillist/index.html

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