E-booklet

‫الدنيا دوارة‬

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND A story about making change

my name is Hessa

DXB Dubai

HTW London

HTW London

DXB Dubai

I’m on a journey to inspire and make a change. I went to study abroad, my trip wasn’t limited to just studying and site seeing. During that I did one of the greatest things in my life.

Here is my story.

As an independent girl who was studying away from my family, I go grocery shopping every week, the same routine, the same people and the same shopping bag every time they go shopping!!

Unlike what I used to notice in our country numerous plastic bags in people’s hand.

They use shopping bag all the time !! maybe they used to

I think they use it for a purpose .. maybe many purposes .. let me look more into it.

TESCO, London Saturday Sep 16, 2014

1 Reusable Bag

One person using Reusable Bags Over Their Life time Would Remove More Than 22,000 Plastic Bag From The Environment

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22,000 Plastic Bag (Over A Person’s Lifetime)

Since the 1950ies almost every piece of plastic that we have ever made, used and thrown away is still here on this planet and it goes to our food!

Plastic bags do not dissolve, they break into tiny pieces and remain for up to 1000 years contaminating soil waterways and oceans.

When plastic bags are thrown on land it makes soil less fertile.

Plastic bags slowly release toxic chemicals that certain animals use as a resource.

Were our grandparents

really healthier than us?

Ah, the good old days.

When kids played outside in the dirt until the dinner bell rang, veggies came from the back garden instead of wrapped in plastic, and a tablet was something you took if you were sick.

It’s a common refrain that our grandparents were raised in simpler, more natural times, before processed foods and ubiquitous screens gave us all sorts of lifestyle diseases.

But how true is that assumption? Were our grandparents really healthier than us? Or are we just romanticising a bygone era?

Before, our grandparents didn’t use plastic, they used

to take biodegradable bag and they use it every time they go shopping. In the past 30 years alone, the amount of plastic produced worldwide has increased by 620 percent! On average, that equates to 300 million tons of plastic a year. Of this 300 million tons, about 8.8 million tons find their way into the world’s oceans and soil where they are left to slowly photo degrade into smaller pieces. When you consider the huge volume that is added to the oceans and soil every year and the fact that plastics never really “go away,” we find our soil crowded with a massive soupy mixture of harmful plastic products. This sadly has a massive impact on the agriculture and our food.

Healthy choices, Healthy lIfe !

Old Souq

1950