Within our local community we have identified a lack of awareness and concern for our actions and their impact on the environment. Hence, we are attempting to educate our community on the consequences of their actions, and providing them with small but effective ways to become more environmentally friendly.

Every time I go to the supermarket, I see people walking out with bags on bags on bags of toxic single-use plastic grocery bags. Every witnessing of this makes me envision and cringe at the detriment this will serve to all life in water and on land. In the city of Abu Dhabi, these irresponsible plastic bag consumption behaviors have been ignored and continue to pollute the earth we live on.

A report written by Duru, a student at TED Atakent School in Turkey who is part of a team delivering a Global Goals project for the 2018-19 Global Goals Competition.