What goes around comes around

‫الدنيا دوارة‬ WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

A story about making a change

By Amna Khalil

WHAT GOES AROUND

DXB Dubai

HTW London

My name is Hessa, I’m on a journey to inspire and make a change. I went to study abroad, my trip wasn’t limited

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OMES AROUND

HTW London

DXB Dubai

to just studying and site seeing. During that I did one of the greatest things in my life.

The Begining

As an independent girl who was studying away from my family, I

go grocery shopping every week, the same routine, the same

TESCO, London

Sep 16, 2014

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.

D N U O R A S E M O C D N U O R A S E O G T WHA

RESEARCH 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.

When 1 plastic Reusab bags are thrown Bag on land = it makes 22,000 soil less fertile. Plastic

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Bag

One usable person using g Reusable 000 Bags Over stic Their Life time g Would Remove More Than 22,000

Plastic Bag From The Environment.

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

D N U O R A S COME

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.

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.

WHA

Healthy choices, Healthy life.

Old Souq

1950

biodegradable bag

Another choice instead of plastic.

HAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

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How Plastic MicroBeades E 2 Humans are at the top of this food chain, so its likely that we are absorbing some of of the plastic chemical from the food we eat.

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Each time we use plastic products the particular flow dow the drain and into t sewer system.

1 Microbeads are tiny plastic particular found in many products .

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s End Up In Our Food

4 Wastewater treatment plants are not designed to filter out microbeades This means they end up swirling around the world ocean.

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5 Sea creatures absorb or eat microbeads and they are passed along the marine food chain.

Time To Inspire And After collecting all the information, I decided to be part of the change. As a graphic design student I redesigned new shopping bag that attract people, so they carry them all the time.

nd Make A Change

Dubai, UAE

NOV 2018

When I start writing my story, the ending was that I designed new shopping bag and spread them in the local markets in the UAE .

But I recived a call from the Ministry Of Climate Change & Enviironment to support my project.

You Must Be The Change you

Wish To See In The World