What is Earth Day and why is it celebrated?
Earth Day is observed annually in April, commemorating the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. This day highlights the significance of recycling and its role in protecting our precious natural resources, as well as ensuring a sustainable future for our planet. Each year, there is a specific theme set for Earth Day, for 2024 it’s ‘Planet Vs Plastics’.
In this blog, we'll explore this theme further and explain how Stock Must Go uses sustainable materials to play a pivotal role in improving our environment. Let’s get into it!
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What is the theme for Earth Day 2024?
First things first, let’s dive into the meaning of this years Earth Month theme. The Planet Vs Plastics theme helps to call for the end of plastic use, whether that’s by educating ourselves on how to safely dispose of plastics, switching to plastic packaging alternatives or understanding the dangers to our environment of using plastic. Earth Day 2024 plans to promote widespread public awareness to the damage plastic has on our environment showing how it’s impact can have a negative effect on our climate change.
How can we contribute to the Earth on Earth Day?
- Use reusable water bottles instead of buying new.
- Avoid plastic cutlery.
- Use metal and glass straws instead of buying plastic.
- Purchase a reusable shopping bag.
- Avoid using cling films.
- Recycle your materials when possible.
- Purchase refurbished or second-hand products.
- Buy products in bulk.
- Join awareness events.
- Avoid food packaged in plastic heavily.
How do we fit in?
At Stock Must Go, we have already begun the movement to sustainable packaging by providing alternatives to plastic packaging with our Brown Box Deals. We believe that the value of a product lies in its quality and performance, not its outer packaging. With our Brown Box Deals, the spotlight is on offering you incredible tech at significantly reduced prices. You’re getting the same top-tier, high-performance items, just arriving at your door in cardboard boxes. It's an inside-out approach to value - supreme on the inside, simple on the outside.
What’s better is that we have provided many useful ways you can reuse your brown box packaging, so not only are you helping the environment by reducing your plastic use, but our packaging is also reusable and purposeful! Check out our blogs on Plastic Packaging here.
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Conclusion:
By choosing Brown Box Deals, you're not only saving money but also supporting a more sustainable and connected planet. Together, we can make a positive impact on the environment and create a brighter future for all of us. So make sure to take a look at some of our refurbished tech available, we have laptops, tablets and more waiting for you!