Trees help clean the air we breathe, filter the water we drink, and provide habitat to over 80% of the world’s biodiversity. Forests provide jobs to over 1.6 billion people, absorb harmful carbon from the atmosphere.

Environmentally, plastic is a growing disaster. Most plastics are made from petroleum or natural gas, non-renewable resources extracted and processed using energy-intensive techniques that destroy fragile ecosystems.

Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on river and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animals ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner.