4 Friends Started an Epic Plastic Clean-Up Movement After Finding a Deer Who Died Eating Trash

Plastic is perhaps the most ubiquitous product in the modern lifestyle. It allows us to

easily take food and beverages on the go, gives us a vessel to transport our groceries, and most household cleaning products are packaged in it. Unfortunately, as convenient as plastic has made our lives, the planet is paying a terrible price. Globally, we produce 300 million tons of plastic each year, but 78 percent is not properly recycled. It gets sent to landfills instead and from there, it ends up in our oceans and waterways, contaminating once pristine environments with eyesores that eventually break down into microplastics, which are not visible to the naked eye.

While plastic has become a huge problem in the United States, it is not a problem that is exclusive to us. In Bali, plastic pollution is so rampant that one company has taken it upon itself to provide people with plastic-like bags made from the starch of the cassava plant. Dehli, India’s capital, recently voted to ban all disposable plastics in a monumental move for the planet. In some instances, however, it is the community, and not legislation or a company, that makes change happen.

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