Earth911 Podcast: Earth Day’s Michael Karapetian on Participating in the Great Global Cleanup 2023

Earth911 Podcast: Earth Day’s Michael Karapetian on Participating in the Great Global Cleanup 2023

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Earth Day 2023, which takes place on April 22, marks the 53rd 12 months that individuals have come out into the streets to rally for planetary duty, joined park and environmental cleanups, and took part in local weather studying occasions. The first Earth Day was the most important public demonstration in historical past as of that point. Michael Karapetian, the Great Global Cleanup Campaign coordinator for Earth Day Network explains take part on this 12 months’s Great Global Cleanup occasions, which can be centered on enhancing the administration of waste, significantly food waste. See the map of Earth Day events to seek out cleanups close to you.

Michael Karapetian, Great Global Cleanup campaign coordinator at Earth Day Network
Michael Karapetian, Great Global Cleanup marketing campaign coordinator at Earth Day Network, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

Cleanup occasions give everybody — people and organizations — the “alternative to see the optimistic, tangible impacts their actions have on the environment and within the battle to create a waste-free world.” Getting out to clean up a park or a beach, the place discovering plastic litter is a strong reminder concerning the selections we make when shopping for and disposing of things made with plastic, which vary from fast-fashion polyester clothes to bottles and cigarette butts. Michael additionally gives updates about Earth Day Network’s End Plastic Pollution movement and discusses latest reforestation tasks in India, the place The Canopy Project is planting mangrove timber in coastal areas. You can discover native cleanups and learn to take part in Earth Day occasions all 12 months lengthy at  earthday.org.