Name: 【TED】Melati and Isabel Wijsen: Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali (Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali | Melati and Isabel Wijsen)
Uploaded: 2017-09-27T05:28:05.000Z
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we generate 680 cubic meters of plastic garbage a day.

MW: We know that changes the image you may have of our island.

It changed ours, too, when we learned about it,

when we learned that almost all plastic bags in Bali end up in our drains

And those that don't even make it to the ocean,

IW: So we decided to do something about it.

And we've been working for almost three years now

to try to say no to plastic bags on our home island.

And we have had some significant successes.

Green School is not only different in the way that it is built out of bamboo,

We are taught to become leaders of today,

something a normal textbook cannot match.

where we learned about significant people,

we agreed that we also wanted to be significant.

Why should we wait until we were grown up

we brainstormed and thought of all the issues facing Bali.

And one thing that stood out to us the most

So we looked into what was a realistic target for us kids:

there was nothing good about plastic bags.

MW: We were really inspired by the efforts to say no to plastic bags

and to severals cities like Oakland and Dublin.

IW: And so the idea turned into the launch of "Bye Bye Plastic Bags."

MW: In the years that we have been campaigning,

and so we formed the Bye Bye Plastic Bags crew.

The volunteer team includes children from all over the island,

from both international and local schools.

based on an on- and off-line signature petition,

educational and inspirational presentations at schools

and we raise general awareness at markets, festivals, beach clean-ups.

all made by local initiatives on the island.

and he loved our T-shirts, so that helped.

We focused on making the customers aware,

because that's where the change needs to happen.

The village is already two-thirds along the way

Our first attempts to get the government of Bali on board failed.

"Hmm ... a petition with one million signatures.

one million signatures is, like, a thousand times a thousand?

that the Bali airport handles 16 million arrivals and departures a year.

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【TED】Melati and Isabel Wijsen: Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali (Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali | Melati and Isabel Wijsen)

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