Plastic pollution permeates every aspect of our lives, but also highlights the importance of environmental care, protection and conservation. The fact that plastic pollution has detrimental health, social and economic effects compels us to think innovatively about how to address it. United Nation (2018) highlighted that -with today’s youth population (15-24 years) at 1.2 billion and further growth anticipated for the near future, investments in youth must be channelled to enable them to adopt sustainable methods for environmental protection. UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has said 'In 1950, the world’s population of 2.5 billion produced 1.5 million tons of plastic; in 2016, a global population of more than 7 billion people produced over 300 million tons of plastic – with severe consequences for the environment. Plastic pollution is destroying our lives, wildlife and our ecosystem. United Nations estimated that world’s population will reach 10 billion by 2050 relatively, it is expected the plastic production will triple. Recently, young people started a movement for the protection of the environment and their future. They need support from governments, NGOs and from all stakeholders. We all need to work together to equip youth and communities to reduce plastic pollution. AIMs -Imparting awareness and a sense of environmental stewardship among the youth of today and future generations (by engage, support and empower youth to take sustainable environmental actions and promote them) through Strategic Partnership and share good practices -to build/increase the capacity of NGOs to take action regarding reducing plastic waste in the partner countries by encouraging local communities to recycle and re-use. -to equip youth workers with new sustainable environmental skills in order to empower more young people OBJECTIVES Organising activities to address the education needs of young people in order to empower & encourage them to recycle, reuse plastic; To sharing good practices, learning outcomes and non-formal learning methodologies in the field of youth. To create sense of ownership & awareness of the urgent environmental issues among youth by organising, seminars, workshops, polls and creating online platforms to reach wider audiences which will also provide guidance on how to reduce/stop single plastic use and promote recycling; Organise regular upcycling activities within the local communities to show how they can reuse plastic materials for various different purposes. Involving young people with interactive and fun activities that will not only improve the environment they live in but also increase their analytical, decision-making, social by taking part in community activities; Provide tools to participants to uncover their true potentials, and to inspire them to become multipliers in their communities; To foster cooperation and exchange knowledge, experiences with partner organisations by promoting recycling, upcycling to reduce plastic going to the oceans and the landfill. Establish strong connections between the organizations and youth workers and between the youth workers; Train NGOs/youth workers with new sustainable development skills to disseminate results to create and establish related projects for other young people. Promote EU values, social inclusion, diversity, intercultural dialogue, tolerance and respect to each other to the nature among young people by organising intercultural activities. Learn and share expertise of local/national initiatives related to waste management, recycling facilities, environmental friendly plastic reduction and alternative solutions by Environmental protection seminar and workshops.
We wanted to impart awareness and a sense of environmental stewardship among the youth of today and future generations by engaging, supporting and empowering youth to take sustainable environmental actions and promote them. Increase the capacities all project partners and to shared good practice to take action regarding reducing plastic waste by encouraging local communities to reduce, recycle and re-use and upcycle. Equip youth workers with new sustainable environmental skills in order to empower more young people. Train NGOs/youth workers with new sustainable development skills to disseminate results to create and establish related projects for other young people. Provide tools to participants to uncover their true potentials, and to inspire them to become multipliers. To foster cooperation and exchange knowledge, experiences with partner organisations by promoting recycling, upcycling to reduce plastic going to the oceans and the landfill. Establish strong connections between the organizations and youth workers and between youth workers; Promote EU values, social inclusion, diversity, intercultural dialogue, tolerance and respect to each other to the nature among young people by organising intercultural activities.
Plastic pollution permeates every aspect of our lives, but also highlights the importance of environmental care, protection and conservation. The fact that plastic pollution has detrimental health, social and economic effects compels us to think innovatively about how to address it. United Nation (2018) highlighted that -with today’s youth population (15-24 years) at 1.2 billion and further growth anticipated for the near future, investments in youth is crucial to adopt sustainable methods for environmental protection. UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has said in 2016, a global population of more than 7 billion people produced over 300 million tons of plastic – Plastic pollution is destroying our lives, wildlife and our ecosystem. United Nations estimated that world’s population will reach 10 billion by 2050 relatively, it is expected the plastic production will triple. Young people started a movement for the protection of the environment and their future. To equip youth workers with good practice sharing and learn new tools to support young people as well as the communities to reduce plastic pollution. This is why we wanted to implement this project with partnership of ACD La Hoya from Spain and ARTIS from Turkey.