EARTH DAY! LET’S RISE AGAINST ITS DEPLETION

The world celebrated its day carrying an important message saying ‘End Plastic Pollution’. While The annual holiday known as ‘Earth Day’ the day we come together to support the earth  actually has its roots in California. It began more than 40 years ago in reaction to a massive oil spill off the coast of California near Santa Barbara. More than three million gallons of oil killed over 10,000 birds, dolphins and other sea creatures.

As a result in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and promote environmental regulation and education known as Earth Day. The Day has come a long way  since its founding in 1970 uniting communities around the environment in more than 193 countries. 

The theme for 2018 is plastic pollution. Experts say a large mass of discarded plastic that has gathered in the Pacific Ocean, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, has grown to more than 600,000 square miles  more than 155 million hectares (600,000 square miles), or twice the size of the U.S. state of Texas