Coastline tackles plastic pollution, and you?

Make a change and say ‘No’ to plastic!

Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues of our times. The increasing production and use of disposable plastics has now reached a point that makes it difficult to deal with, unless we all make a change in our habits.

Single-use plastics account for 40 percent of the plastic produced every year. Many of these products, such as plastic bags, plastic bottles, straws and food wrappers are used for a few minutes only, but they may persist in the environment for hundreds of years.

 

Plastic is everywhere

Millions of animals are killed by plastics every year, from birds to fish to other marine organisms. Nearly 700 species, including endangered ones, are known to have been affected by plastics. Nearly every species of seabird eats plastics.

In the food chain

The water bottle or the plastic straw we carelessly throw away near the beach reaches the ocean, degrades and breaks down in tiny parts of plastic—microplastics—which are then mistaken for food by fish, who are then eaten by us. What goes around comes around.

At KAUST

 

 

 

 

 

At KAUST, Coastline has taken actions to make a change.

• Glass bottles are sold instead of single-use plastic bottles at Al-Marsa and Ya Hala Restaurants.
• Single-use plastics are not used on boats K-Manta, Coastline 1, Coastline 2, and Coastline 6.

Those initiatives mean that 6,000 single-use plastic bottles are spared each month!

You can also make a change! 

Use a reusable bag for shopping, carry a refillable water bottle  and refuse plastic straws! Each time you say ‘No’ to plastic, you make a change.

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