Relevant SDGs to Reuse

How To Incorporate This Sdg

Limiting single-use plastics targets a much larger issue of many not having access to safe drinking water. Unfortunately, it is a growing environmental injustice that individuals face across the globe, including the United States. Are there any examples your participants can think of where natural or man-made disasters have limited a populations access to water sanitation?

Important Targets

• 6.1: By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.

• 6.3: Improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials.

• 6.6: By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes.

How To Incorporate This Sdg

Invite your participants to think of their favorite Water activities (it’s okay if they aren’t necessarily the best for the planet). Ask how their actions are impacting the environment and begin to introduce the idea of how many individuals use single-use plastics in everyday activities that end up in our oceans. What impacts over time would this have on the environment and the oceans? What policies or initiatives should be made to better protect our oceans?

Important Targets

• 14.1: By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds.

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development

• 14.3: Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels.

• 14.5: By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas.

How To Incorporate This Sdg

If participants open the conversation to responsible consumption, bring up this SDG. Ask them the importance of making a small change like using a refillable water bottle has on the environment. How much change can really be made unless large corporations incorporate this SDG into their business practices; and what does support look like to countries that may be lacking resources to build sustainable infrastructure to meet this goal.

Important Targets

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

• 12.2: By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.

• 12.4: By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, and significantly reduce their release to air, water, and soil.

• 12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle.

• 12.8: By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.

• 12.a: Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production. www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment