There is an urgent need to save our oceans/marine animals as plastic is destroying wildlife & our global ecosystem. Consortium came together because;- Plastic waste is destroying our environments, polluting air, water, destroying our lands and seas;- There will be more plastic in the ocean than fish;- There is a significant health risk caused by plastic usage, and also fish/seafood contains plastic ends up in food chain;- Many marine animals and sea birds consume pieces of plastic as they confuse with food, and suffer a painful death;-Plastic also destroying our economies and resources;Failure to act will have catastrophic global effects. Consortium will share education of methodologies for recycling plastic waste employed in partner UE countries and implement increase the capacity partner in Myanmar as well as all partner countries. With organized activities, NGOs, youth workers, youth will increase their capacities for active civic involvement on the matter concerning their communities especially regarding environmental protection by reducing plastic waste production.These activities will empower and encourage young people and their communities to be actively involved in recycling, reusing, upcycling for reduction of plastic waste and to decrease the waste ends up in our landfill & the ocean in their countries. Trans-continental cooperation and network set-up will help reach wider audiences and it will increase the impact and lifetime of the project. AIMs-to build/increase the capacity of NGOs, Institution and stakeholders to take action regarding reducing plastic waste in the partner countries by encouraging local communities to recycle and re-use.-to increase awareness of the critical environmental issues caused by plastic & microplastics (as they end up in our seas and oceans and effectively ending up in the our food chain.With well designed implementation, dissemination, follow up and sustainability action plans capacity of partners will increase, youth workers will have new competences to empower youth to be more involved reducing plastic waste ends up in our oceans/seas and landfill.
Increase capacity of partnersFoster cooperation, exchange knowledge, experiences with partner organisations by promoting recycling, upcycling to prevent more plastic waste producedOrganising activities to address education needs of young people in order to encourage them to recycle and reuse plasticTo sharing good practices, learning outcomes and non-formal learning methodologiesTrain NGOs/youth workers with sustainable development skills to disseminate resultsPromote EU values, diversity.
Our consortium came together to enhance the capacity of the partners in order to empower and encourage communities to be actively involved in recycling, reusing, upcycling for reduction of plastic waste to decrease the waste that ends up in our landfill and the ocean in their countries. Trans-continental cooperation and network set-up will help reach wider audiences and it would increase the impact and lifetime of the project.
<< Background >> Our consortium came together to enhance the capacity of the partners in order to empower and encourage communities to be actively involved in recycling, reusing, upcycling for reduction of plastic waste to decrease the waste that ends up in our landfill and the ocean in their countries. Trans-continental cooperation and network set-up will help reach wider audiences and it would increase the impact and lifetime of the project. << Objectives >> Increase capacity of partnersFoster cooperation, exchange knowledge, experiences with partner organisations by promoting recycling, upcycling to prevent more plastic waste producedOrganising activities to address education needs of young people in order to encourage them to recycle and reuse plasticTo sharing good practices, learning outcomes and non-formal learning methodologiesTrain NGOs/youth workers with sustainable development skills to disseminate resultsPromote EU values, diversity. << Implementation >> Implementation consisted of research & analysis of country situations & good examples, Transnational Meetings, Study visits, Training course-capacity building activities, local environmental workshops and beach cleanups, litter-pickings, online and offline eco awareness campaigns, surveys polls, conferences , youth event, evaluations, dissemination, exposures activities. Networking with experts and knowledge exchange throughout the project to increase all partners capacities. << Results >> Increased capacity of all partners, especially of Peru70 youth workers, facilitators, educators, NGO, municipality representatives, youth leaders, volunteers were trained40+ Videos created200+ directly involved in international activities500+ directly involved people in local activities14000+ people were reached on social media Experts exchanged knowledge via eco eventsTons of waste were collected from beaches, parks and streets and raised plastic pollution awareness