This outfit is based on the Earth Day 2024 theme "Planet vs. Plastic". This skirt is made from ‘Biodegradable Plastic Garbage Bags’. I used about ten garbage bags, but I had many left even after that. It tells us that we have been using a lot of plastic in this generation and may continue to. Though biodegradable plastic is better than traditional plastic, it still poses threats to our environment. This is not a situation where we have time left, but it is a situation where we have to work as one society that can give up plastic to save the planet. I used biodegradable plastic, which is better than the traditional ones but not everybody uses it! Plastic can take years to decompose but still, people are using it. Why? Because not everybody is aware of the situation and the solutions that many people have found. This skirt symbolizes one of the solutions we humans have found out, but this is not enough because this is only better than the traditional plastic, and not good for saving the planet! We as one society should not work towards developing more plastic, but find solutions to replace plastic and save our planet! 

Costume by: Aarya Verma

Age: 11

Last edited: 7th May 2024

This outfit is based on the Earth Day 2024 theme "Planet vs. Plastic". This outfit is made out of newspapers, a plastic bag, bobby pins, beads, nano tape, and cloth flowers. While I was wearing this outfit I was feeling very suffocated and this relates to our mother earth getting suffocated with plastic pollution. So as you can see here I have recycled these items to make sure we don't pollute a lot and to make good use of plastic, etc. Now you can know how Mother Earth feels plus how we have to recycle plastic. From now onwards humans have to stop using a lot of plastic and stop polluting the earth. 

Costume by: Tiana Arun

Age: 10

Last edited : 6th May 2024

Vanesa Satish

Last modified: January 16th, 2024

Food wastage. It seems minor at first. A bit of curry or rice you don’t feel like eating anymore? Into the dustbin. A few vegetables that you managed to say no to eating? Into the dustbin. A bit too much food on your plate that you grabbed in a hungry state which seemingly has evaporated into thin air? Into the dustbin. And at the end of the day, that dustbins are thrown out and clean and empty by the morning, and we forget about it. We forget that the food we waste doesn’t magically disappear, we forget that it’s taken to landfills that could possibly be nicknamed mountains at this point, we forget that while we can dump away our home trash, where are we going to dump mountains of trash? We have so many choices of cuisine and food options wherever we go, but there are millions of kids, children, and families, starving for the food that we pile into dustbins and casually throw away. And let’s not forget how we’re cranking up greenhouse gasses to the maximum, with emissions of carbon dioxide rising to 170 million metric tons, depleting ozone layers, polluting the air and oceans, etc. If we keep wasting our resources so carelessly, at one point in the future, the coming generations are going to suffer for our mistakes. Our future children and their children will grow up in a world where food is scarce and rare, with landscapes of food waste, and toxic environments if we don’t change now. There are many ways we can start to move forward and fix this. Like :

1. Buying or taking less food that we don’t plan to eat.

2. Store food appropriately

3. Pick up a more sustainable and healthy food lifestyle

4. Find ways to save food leftovers.

5. Participate in ways to take any leftovers and find a sustainable way to make sure they are put to good use like feeding the poor.

ex. Restaurants or bakeries with extra food.

6. Make compost and give back to Mother Earth.

Only if we work together, do we have a chance to fix this problem, on repairing the damage we are doing currently. If we make the first step, others will follow. Don’t wait to be the follower, be the example first.                             

Written by: Tiana Arun

Age: 10

Last edited: 17th January 2024