{"id":18244,"date":"2019-12-30T10:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T05:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=18244"},"modified":"2019-12-30T10:57:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T05:27:33","slug":"climate-justice-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/climate-justice-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Justice Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 13<sup>th<\/sup>\nDecember 2019, on the occasion of \u2018Kodi Habba\u2019, The Clean Kundapura Project and\nFSL India jointly organised an awareness campaign about Anti-Plastic and Sea Turtle\nConservation along with the FSL India volunteer\u2019s staff and Clean Kundapura\nProject volunteers during the Koteshwara festival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-20191219-WA0002-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18252\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The team\nmembers of Clean Kundapura Project and FSL India volunteers spread awareness among\nthe festival visitors through distributing flyers and interacting with them. Since\nmany shop keepers used plastics for packing items, we visited shops and talked\nabout how using plastic is not good for the environment and human beings. Since\nplastic can\u2019t be composted, we suggested alternatives such as using old\nnewspapers, cotton carrying bags, wooden spoons and straws to become an eco\nfriendly shopkeeper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When interacting with festival visitors, we would ask questions such as \u201cWhat do you do with plastics after use?\u201d Most of them replied that they put it in a dustbin, but didn\u2019t know what happens to it afterwards. Common knowledge is that waste ends up in landfills or is just burnt. Since it is difficult to find good ways of managing the plastic waste, we promoted alternatives like opting for other materials instead of plastics or reducing plastic use in general. Hands-on tips that we tried to spread were for example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Carrying\nyour own bag and containers when going to the market<\/li><li>Reusing\nthe same water bottle for drinking<\/li><li>Thinking\ntwice before purchasing something that comes in a one time-use plastic wrapper.\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-20191219-WA0003-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18253\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone\nknows that it\u2019s not good to use plastic. Still it\u2019s difficult to avoid, plastic\nbeing such a widespread material in people\u2019s everyday life. Given all the plastic\nwaste visible in streets, people seem quite ignorant. On another hand, the\nwaste management system is not well organised. It\u2019s an opening for an endless\nblame game if nothing changes. Our opinion is that the people in power should\nmake a bigger effort to implement proper waste management systems nationwide,\nin both cities and small villages. There would be needed both the management\nsystem itself and also actions for following up and creating both awareness and\nmotivating people to keep up with \u201cClean India\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Littering and not handling plastic waste properly not only causes environmental issues in the future. Very much \u2018here and now\u2019, plastic pollution is threatening the survival of thousands of species, among them Sea Turtles. Because they play an essential role in the marine ecosystem, FSL India decided to protect Sea Turtles in particular. Plastic in the sea may be mistaken for food by Sea Turtles and can cause fatal injuries. Plastic on the beaches keeps them from crawling to land and laying their eggs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"292\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-20191213-WA0005.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-20191213-WA0005.jpg 640w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-20191213-WA0005-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-20191213-WA0005-592x270.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the volunteers of the Sea turtle Conservation Programme participated in the promotion of plastic reduction. In addition, we distributed flyers with a Sea Turtle Conservation emergency number on it. If anyone finds wounded Sea Turtles or nests on the beach, they could just call the number and FSL India would take care of the issue, e. g. by informing the forest officials, veterinarian, or building protective hatcheries around the nests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All in all,\nour awareness campaign was a success. We got in touch with many people who were\ninterested and concerned about plastic reduction, and have hopefully called\nsome visitors\u2019 attention to it. Nonetheless, does the fact remain, that without\na well organised waste management and recycling system and governmental\nregulations on avoidable plastic use, plastic pollution will not decrease significantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-20191213-WA0001-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18250\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 13th December 2019, on the occasion of \u2018Kodi Habba\u2019, The Clean Kundapura Project and FSL India jointly organised an awareness campaign about Anti-Plastic and Sea Turtle Conservation along with the FSL India volunteer\u2019s staff and Clean Kundapura Project volunteers during the Koteshwara festival. The team members of Clean Kundapura Project and FSL India volunteers spread awareness among the festival visitors through distributing flyers and interacting with them. Since many shop keepers used plastics for packing items, we visited shops&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/climate-justice-campaign\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":18254,"comment_status":"Closed","ping_status":"Closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[432,446],"tags":[1327,1328,1317,909,1308,1311,1304,1299,1300,1312,1309,1306,1055,1145,1326,1315,1330,1331,1314,1310,1319,1329,1318,1305,1301,1307,124,802,567,1303,326,355],"class_list":["post-18244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centre-for-experiential-living","category-environmental-education","tag-anti-plastic","tag-cleanindia","tag-climate","tag-climatechange","tag-earth","tag-eco","tag-ecofriendly","tag-environmentalist","tag-environmentawareness","tag-globalwarming","tag-gogreen","tag-green","tag-guidestarindia","tag-love","tag-plasticawareness","tag-plasticfree","tag-plasticpollution","tag-plasticredution","tag-pollution","tag-recycle","tag-reuse","tag-saveseaturtles","tag-savetheearth","tag-savetheplanet","tag-trashfree","tag-zerowaste","tag-environment","tag-india","tag-nature","tag-sustainability","tag-sustainable","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18256,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18244\/revisions\/18256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}