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Letters | Mark Earth Day by embracing plant-based products to help save the environment
- Using more plant-based products can decrease our reliance on fossil fuels, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut down on landfill waste
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The theme for Earth Day 2021 is “Restore Our Earth”, focusing on ways to prevent and reverse the impacts of climate change. Incorporating more products and materials made from renewable, plant-based inputs into our lives can help address our environmental challenges head on.
Using more plant-based products – including household cleaners, packaging, textiles, building materials and more – can decrease our reliance on fossil fuels, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut down on landfill waste. As the sustainable inputs used to create these products grow, they remove carbon dioxide pollution from the atmosphere. Many of these products are compostable, helping provide much-needed organic matter and nutrients to our depleted soil resources.
This Earth Day, let us commit to using more renewable resources to create the products we use every day as an important step towards restoring our Earth.
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Jessica Bowman, executive director, Plant Based Products Council, Washington
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