A video by Denis Thomopoulos of Cool the Climate highlights ways for eaters to enjoy a plant-based and plastic-free Valentines Day meal.
The short clips highlights strategies to avoid waste including shopping for vegetables from a local farmers market and opting for shelf stable ingredients packaged without plastic.
Through cartoons, games, and other materials Cool the Climate works to raise awareness of the climate crisis. For Valentines Day, they teamed up with the Plastic Pollution Coalition, an alliance working toward a world free of plastic pollution, to highlight sustainable ways to celebrate.
According to the U.N. Environment Programme, roughly 400 million tonnes of plastic waste are produced every year and approximately 36 percent of all plastics produced are used in packaging.
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