The global theme and campaign for Earth Day 2024 is Planet vs. Plastics a call for a 60% reduction of plastic production by 2040. How will you get involved?
We look back on our work with the Design Museum calculating the environmental impact of their Waste Age exhibition and The World Around Young Climate Prize is open for nominations...
The global theme and campaign for Earth Day 2024 is Planet vs. Plastics a call for a 60% reduction of plastic production by 2040.
“The Planet vs. Plastics campaign is a call to arms, a demand that we act now to end the scourge of plastics and safeguard the health of every living being upon our planet.” Kathleen Rogers President of Earth Day Network.
Planet vs. Plastics unites students, parents, businesses, governments, churches, unions, individuals, and NGOs in an unwavering commitment to call for the end of plastics for the sake of human and planetary health, demanding a 60% reduction in the production of plastics by 2040 and an ultimate goal of building a plastic-free future for generations to come.
“The word environment means what surrounds you. In the case of plastics we have become the product itself – it flows through our blood stream, adheres to our internal organs, and carries with it heavy metals known to cause cancer and disease. Now this once-thought amazing and useful product has become something else, and our health and that of all other living creatures hangs in the balance,” said Kathleen Rogers, President of Earthday.org. “The Planet vs. Plastics campaign is a call to arms, a demand that we act now to end the scourge of plastics and safeguard the health of every living being upon our planet.”
To learn more about Planet vs. Plastics and join the movement for a plastic-free future, please visit: Earth Day 2024.
To educate yourself on the impacts of plastic on human health, check out the Plastics Health Research Module and Earthday.org’s Earth Hub for all fact sheets, toolkits, press releases, and articles to empower you and your community to support the campaign.
To read more about Earth Day and its history click here.
Waste Age, an exhibition capturing the devastating impact of waste and showcasing visionary designers who are reimagining our relationship with waste, exhibited at London’s Design Museum from October 2021 to February 2022.
As part of the exhibition design process, URGE Collective’s Alexie Sommer, Ralf Waterfield and Sophie Thomas conducted an environmental audit of the exhibition to calculate its impact, as well as to provide the Museum with benchmarking data and best practice processes for future exhibitions.
The environmental audit was based on a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) approach. URGE worked with the museum’s curatorial, design, facilities and production teams to understand the environmental impact of the building and the exhibition design, and to guide design decisions that would reduce the exhibition’s impact.
If you would like to know more about how we can work with you or your organisation to support your sustainability strategies and processes, drop us a line at hello@urgecollective.com.
The World Around Young Climate Prize is looking for 25 exceptional designers, scientists, artists, activists and entrepreneurs under the age of 25 from all over the world, that are actively building a more sustainable future. If you are under-25 and have your own climate resilience, action or design project or know someone who does, please nominate now!
The actual applications for the In Focus: Research’s second edition of the Climate Prize, will open on Earth Day, April 22nd. It will be free to enter the competition to be one of the exceptional 25 under 25 cohort!
