What is sustainability?

I’m really good at recycling! Not just because it’s good for the planet, but because on an airship like this there’s no one to collect the rubbish!

I reuse my water bottle instead of buying bottled water, otherwise I’d have lots of plastic bottles to get rid of. And I get fruit and vegetables without packaging otherwise I’d have lots of plastic wrapping to get rid of.

When you live without making waste like this, it’s called being sustainable! And it’s not only important for the way I live, but the way we all live.

This is because we’re throwing away a lot of rubbish, especially plastic! Food wrapping and drinks bottles are called single-use plastics because they’re only used once, and then thrown away.

Even things that don’t look like they’re made of plastic can still have plastic in them, like coffee cups that have a plastic lining.A lot of this rubbish doesn’t get recycled which is a big problem, because plastic doesn’t rot or biodegrade, so it takes a long time to break down.

A plastic bag can take hundreds of years to decompose. If plastic ends up in rivers, lakes, seas and oceans, it can do a lot of harm, as wildlife can get tangled in it, or mistake it for food!

Eight million tonnes of plastic enters the world’s oceans each year, so we all need to live more sustainably to stop polluting the planet! Because, just like my airship, there’s no one to collect the rubbish!