Mom’s need your help. Climate change is harming the future for our kids. Studies show, parents have less than 32 minutes of "me time" each day. We’re too busy to just flip the switch and "go green."
Target, we shop you, we support you, we love you, and we celebrate you in our Mom memes. Help us out. You be the change.
A study into the everyday lives of 2,000 moms and dads found that the typical parent has just over 30 minutes to themselves every day once work and parenting duties are tended to. That's because 32 percent of parents don’t actually stop “working” until at least 8 p.m. when parenting duties have been factored in.
Plastic bags tend to disrupt the environment in a serious way. They get into soil and slowly release toxic chemicals. It takes 500 (or more) years for a plastic bag to degrade in a landfill. When they eventually break down into the soil, they photo-degrade, becoming microplastics that absorb toxins and continue to pollute the environment.
Up to 80 percent of ocean plastic pollution enters the ocean from land and 8 million tons of plastic enter our oceans every year. By the year 2025, there will be 1 tonne (a metric ton) of plastic for every 3 tonnes of fish in the ocean. At least 267 different species have been affected by plastic pollution in the ocean. 100,000 marine animals are killed by plastic bags annually.
Target stores currently issue over 100 million plastic shopping bags to it’s customers annually.
According to Waste Management, only one percent of plastic bags are returned for recycling every year.
Of the 1500 per year, each family only recycles 15 of those.
Target, we need you!
Moms have been good to you, now do us a solid! To impact climate change we need your help. You be the change! Ban plastic bags for recycled paper bags and work with your brands to design reusable bags to sell by the checkout.