Project
Evergreen
Biodegradability
Small Actions, Big Changes
About us
Hi everyone! We are Project Evergreen.
Our objective is simple -
"To encourage people to switch to biodegradable materials through educating them on the importance of reducing our plastic waste and substituting the plastics in our lives with other materials which would not harm the environment through the use of easy-to-read comics"
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Background
information
Plastic pollution is an especially relevant topic in our world today. From plastic drink straws, to product packaging we use a lot of it. However, the story of the plastic we use rarely ends well. Most of the plastic we use ends up in landfills and the ocean, forming a “new continent” spanning from the coast off California to the west of Japan, nearly 3 times the size of France as of 2020. Plastic also causes land pollution. When we burn plastics, toxic gases are also released, such as polychlorinated biphenyls and other dioxins and greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide which can further harm the environment by trapping heat, promoting global warming which further tears down the ozone layer, earth’s protective layer. Thus this greatly affects us, humans, in many ways.
Our Rationale
Apart from finding better ways to dispose of plastic, or get rid of it from the environment, our project decided to go onto the path of using biodegradable materials that can substitute plastic and still serve the same functions while being widely available. Our group also decided to use comics to show this information such that it is easier for our audience to read and understand. Furthermore, in our world of social media, people would want faster ways to absorb information instead of reading large chunks of texts, hence, we are able to get more people to read our information by making it simpler to understand through comics.
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