By Alberica Rindi | Outreach Coordinator
Dear friends and supporters,
Happy New Year!
2020 saw a rise in the demand and consumption of single use plastic, due to the outbreak of COVID-19. New laws and reforms aimed at stopping the production and use of single use plastics have been postponed or reversed.
Therefore, this year we have to keep fighting to bring higher awareness about the disastrous consequences of plastic, increasing transparency and accountability. In this way, we can move towards sustainable alternatives and justice for all living beings affected by plastic pollution.
Help us set Plastic Pollution on the Global Agenda!
With your help we have been able to raise parts of the funds and start the project.
We hope you will want to continue supporting the WHY PLASTIC? campaign and thereby bringing plastic on the global agenda! You do this here: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/whyplastic/
Why Plastic? Short film call at OFF21 - Odense International Film Festival
THE WHY has successfully partnered with Odense International Film Festival (OFF) - the short film festival that is qualifying for the Oscars. Filmmakers from all over the world are invited to compete in the challenge: create short films on plastic, specifically focusing on the following themes:
Plastic Solutions
Plastic in Numbers
Plastic is Everywhere
The History of Plastic
The Size of Plastic
People and Plastic
The 10 best short films will be selected by OFF and THE WHY and will premiere at the festival, where they will win various prizes. The funds raised by GG, will be used to pay the prizes and thereby covering the cost of production for the filmmakers and let the films become part of the WHY PLASTIC? Campaign.
If we are able to raise further funds, we will dub the films to many languages such as Arabic, Swahili, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Farsi, French and activate millions of people around the world in discussing the status quo and choosing alternative solutions.
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In order to keep all the people involved with WHY PLASTIC? updated, we have also started an exclusive bimestral newsletter. Sign up here: http://eepurl.com/g9ofxX
Thank you for your support in making this happen.
Warm regards and stay safe,
THE WHY’s team
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