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End Plastic Soup An initiative started by the Rotary Clubs of Amsterdam 1 Plastic Soup = the plastic waste in our Oceans, Rivers, Waters and Nature Pictures: Kees Lafeber, island of Saparua, Moluccan, Indonesia, 2018 2 The Plastic Soup

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End Plastic Soup

An initiative started by the Rotary Clubs of Amsterdam

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Pictures: Kees Lafeber, island of Saparua, Moluccan, Indonesia, 2018

‘Plastic Soup’ = the plastic waste in our Oceans, Rivers, Waters and Nature

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The Plastic Soup is a big issue

Picture: Kees Lafeber, island of Saparua, Moluccan, Indonesia, 2018

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Plastic Facts: 320 million tons new plastic has been produced in 2016 In the US 500 mio plastic straws are used every day Every minute 1 mio plastic bottles are bought around the world

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To date 8.3 billion tons of plastic have been produced 6.3 billion tons is waste, only 9% is recycled, 12% incenerated 79% - 5 billion ended up in landfills and

  • ur environment

This is the weight of 500,000 Eiffel towers

  • r 50 mio whales
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6.3 Billion tons waste, only 9% is recycled, 12% is incenerated, 79% ended up in nature

Source: NOAA Marine Debris Program

3x France 1 of 5 Garbage Patch areas Only 6% is visible Every day 8 mio pieces of plastic into our oceans

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Plastic does not go away, it all just gets smaller

Source: The Plastic Soup Foundation

It takes 1000 years to decompose Plastic is even in Plankton now - Plankton is responsible for 1/3 of the CO2 absorption and >50%

  • xygen production on our planet

Kills > 1.1 Mio animals per year

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Rotary Clubs in Amsterdam started the End Plastic Soup initiative in June 2018 Over 30 Rotary clubs gathered from Amsterdam en 11 European cities of the Leonardo da Vinci Award network

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Boyan Slat and his Ocean Clean Up project were rewarded with the Leonardo da Vinci award

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End Plastic Soup: Rotary can make it happen! 1.2 mio Rotarians can make a difference People of Action, a variety of skills able to reach out Non-political, non-religious, independent

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The End Plastic Soup initiative can unite us all! Increasing speed

  • f action

Inspiring across generations, growing Rotary Collaborating across countries – a platform to solve the complex issues

  • f sustainability
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Our goals Awareness & Action Collaboration Information & Connection

The Steering Committee from left to right: Madelon, Hetty, Michiel, (Boyan, not a member of the Steering Committee), Wendela, Wytzia & Gert-Jan

Our goals:

  • Awareness for

1.2 mio Rotarians

  • Local actions - 1 June

End Plastic Soup Day

  • Collaboration WASRAG

& ESRAG projects

  • Grow Rotary, attract

young people

  • Support sustainability

goals UN & support Environmental change

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First step: Sign the (online) Petition www.endplasticsoup.com

THE UNDERSIGNED ROTARY CLUBS AND MEMBERS ARE AWARE OF THE THREAT OF PLASTIC WASTE ON LAND AND IN THE OCEANS. WE ARE PREPARED TO END PLASTIC SOUP! BY SIGNING THIS PETITION, WE COMMIT OURSELVES TO COME INTO ACTION AND MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS (PERSONAL AND AS A CLUB) TO END PLASTIC WASTE AND MAKE 1.2 MILLION ROTARIANS IN THE WORLD AWARE OF THIS MAJOR PROBLEM. see: endplasticsoup.com email: endplasticsoup@gmail.com

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Next step; Join the End Plastic Soup Initiative

The undersigned Rotary clubs and members are aware of the threat of plastic waste on land and in the oceans. We are prepared to End Plastic Soup! By signing this petition, we commit ourselves to come into action and make contributions (personal and as a club) to end plastic waste and make 1.2 million Rotarians in the world aware of this major problem. see: endplasticsoup.com email: endplasticsoup@gmail.com

Let us know your club joins this initiative Support this End Plastic Soup initiative:

  • Sign the petition and inform us
  • We ask 200 euro for this year to support us
  • In return: End Plastic Soup flag with your Club name,

access to all materials, presentations, pictures and information and frequent updates

  • Just send an email to: endplasticsoup@gmail.com
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1st June: Rotary End Plastic Soup Day Rotary Clubs worldwide

  • rganize events on this

day to create awareness Share your action and send us your pictures to show in Hamburg

Saturday 1st June: Rotary End Plastic Soup Action Day

End Plastic Soup will help to organize impactful events around beaches, rivers & cities

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Other Rotary actions you can do locally: information packages will be made available Event Challenge School Challenge Shop & Restaurant Challenge Rethink & Rebuild the Plastic Economy: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Refurbish Redesign, Remanufacture, Recycle, Recover & Remove Beach & Forest River & Water City & Street Awareness: Inform, Educate & Show Lead by example in 2019 Action: Clean Up, Prick & Fish Plastic Zero-Waste Rotary events by 2020 Anticipation: Collaborate, Refuse & Reduce Alternatives to refuse in 2021

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Examples of a local Rotary action: New Year’s Dive 2019 in Huizen, Netherlands End Plastic Soup - School Challenge: Enable waste separation and collection for all schools

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Other examples of local Rotary actions 9 March RotarAct Scheveningen Rotary Sotra Norway Bay adoption 23 March plastic fishing Amsterdam

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Connection with international NGOs Collaboration Ocean CleanX and The Great Bubble Barrier River Clean Up projects Ameca Mexico, Ganges India, Mississippi USA…

https://cleaningtheriversoftheworld.org/

Ocean Cleanup project of Boyan Slat Plastic Soup Foundation

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Connection with Rotary International Presence in Hamburg: booth + plastic prick action jointly with action “Deckel Drauf” to support End Polio Now Preparation Honolulu Peter Iblher and Mark Moloney Collaboration WASRAG and ESRAG

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What can you do yourself? Awareness: a Plastic Diet:

https://www.plastichealthcoalition.org/p lastic-diet/

While travelling:

  • Use a Dopper to drink
  • Leave free bottles
  • Don’t use straws
  • Leave the (shampoo) minis in

your hotel room

  • Carry your own shoppingbag

https://www.plasticsoupfoundation.

  • rg/newsroom-

2/?afg0_page_id=5#afg-0

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End Plastic Soup: let us start and tell others!

  • Movie at Youtube: Plastic Soup: The biggest soup in the world!
  • 21st February 2019: Plastic Pact signed by 75+ organizations in NL

and in France https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2019/02/21/european-

responses-to-the-plastic-pact/

  • 22nd April 2019: this year Earth Day focuses on ending plastic
  • pollution. https://www.earthday.org/about/
  • 1st June: Rotary End Plastic Soup Action Day by Rotary Clubs

worldwide and in Hamburg during the convention: endplasticsoup.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=gUCx-j4Gk_k&t=0s

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End Plastic Soup

Thank you for connecting!

endplasticsoup@gmail.com