🔋 shortened link to this hub: https://tinyurl.com/NOYPIPlasticAttack
<aside> 🔥 Welcome to the Makesense Plastic-Free Earth Day! Are you ready to join us?
This homebase is made for all community members of the NOYPI Campaign, which is the program behind this event. Whether you’re a new member who just signed up or you’re someone who’s been engaging with us already, you are very much welcome!
Do you have any questions or concerns unanswered by this homebase? Don’t hesitate to ask them in our Facebook Group! This is where we interact with each other the most. See you there!
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<aside> ✅ Join us at the Plastic Attack on Earth Day (April 22)! 🌎 ****Sign-up here: https://makesense.typeform.com/SachetAway ****Skip to “ 📌 Plastic Attack in Detail” for more info.
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NOYPI stands for No Other Year for Plastics Initiative. We are a citizen-powered movement to keep plastic out of our oceans, homes, and meals – for good!
Our mission is to execute an unignorable, impactful campaign to fight the sachet culture of the Philippines by mobilizing 50,000 citizens.
This 2022, we are going to do this by organizing and participating in an exciting Plastic-Free Earth Day on April 22, 2022! Our first event will be in **Robinsons Galleria Supermarket,** Metro Manila, Philippines, and it will be a concrete way to show how serious we are, as a community, about the Plastic Crisis.
And now you are part of this movement! Welcome! 👋🏻
<aside> ➡️ Our official website for this campaign: https://noypi2025.makesense.org/
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This event is inspired by the Plastic Attack Movement which started in the small English town of Keynsham near Bristol in the UK when a group of environmentally concerned shoppers decided they had had enough of the excess packaging that came with their food. Their idea was simple…. JUST LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND! Around 30 members of the group decided to carry out one of the first-ever plastic attack peaceful campaigns at their local Tesco store.
The group of citizens went in and did their shopping as normal, but when they reached the checkout and paid for their food, they then did something very out of the ordinary. Removing all the plastic packaging that came with the items they had purchased they then placed only the actual food into reusable containers and bags to take home with them.
The organizers then informed staff that they would be leaving all this unnecessary plastic waste behind for the supermarket to deal with and recycle responsibly. The event was filmed and shared via social media and also the local news got involved to report this very direct act of protest against single-use plastics.
This was, we believe, the first-ever recorded incident of what has quickly become known around the world as a ‘Plastic Attack’.
⬇️ A step-by-step outline of a plastic attack is found here:
What is a plastic attack & how is it done? - Plastic Attack
⬇️ A very good example of a Plastic Attack is found here:
BBC - Plastic attack! | Facebook
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Pictured above: some of your fellow NOYPI Volunteers!
Your role is to be the heart of this campaign! Concretely, we invite you to help us with small, impactful actions leading up to the Plastic-Free Earth Day event on April 22, to participate in this in-person event itself, and then to be active in the community even after that!
With this in mind, we ask you to be an active member of our community by 1) making sure to introduce yourself in our group, 2) responding to questions posed in the group, 3) engaging with fellow community members, 4) recruiting more community members, and 5) joining in on the online activities!