{"id":64459,"date":"2024-07-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=64459"},"modified":"2024-07-12T09:10:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T21:10:48","slug":"plastic-free-july-billion-bottles-eden-park-cgi-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/plastic-free-july-billion-bottles-eden-park-cgi-video\/","title":{"rendered":"A billion plastic bottles fill Eden Park stadium for Plastic Free July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To mark the start of Plastic Free July, Greenpeace has released a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bQiUxItqNAI\">startling video<\/a> showing Auckland\u2019s iconic Eden Park stadium filled with around a billion single-use plastic bottles.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Plastic Free July sees a billion single-use plastic bottles fill Eden Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bQiUxItqNAI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p>The short CGI video vividly illustrates the number of throwaway single-use plastic bottles sold in New Zealand every year by corporations such as Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cTo avoid using real plastic bottles, we have rendered the video with CGI, but the picture it paints is very real,\u201d says Greenpeace spokesperson Juressa Lee. \u201cThanks to companies like Coca-Cola, the world is drowning in plastic. Here in Aotearoa alone, companies like Coke sell one billion single-use plastic bottles every year.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2024\/06\/0fb9f51e-eden-park-plastic-bottles-cgi-animation-02-1024x576.jpg\" title=\"To mark the start of Plastic Free July, Greenpeace has released a startling video showing Auckland\u2019s iconic Eden Park stadium filled with a billion single-use plastic bottles to illustrate the number of single-use plastic bottles sold in New Zealand every year.\" alt=\"To mark the start of Plastic Free July, Greenpeace has released a startling video showing Auckland\u2019s iconic Eden Park stadium filled with a billion single-use plastic bottles to illustrate the number of single-use plastic bottles sold in New Zealand every year.\" class=\"wp-image-64460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2024\/06\/0fb9f51e-eden-park-plastic-bottles-cgi-animation-02-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2024\/06\/0fb9f51e-eden-park-plastic-bottles-cgi-animation-02-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2024\/06\/0fb9f51e-eden-park-plastic-bottles-cgi-animation-02-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2024\/06\/0fb9f51e-eden-park-plastic-bottles-cgi-animation-02-510x287.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2024\/06\/0fb9f51e-eden-park-plastic-bottles-cgi-animation-02.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A screenshot from the short CGI video released for Plastic Free July showing what the 1 billion plastic bottles sold every year in New Zealand would look like if it was poured into Eden Park Stadium.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>\u201cOnly a small portion of single-use plastic is ever recycled, but all of it inevitably breaks down into microplastic pollution.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cToday is the first day of Plastic Free July, when people are encouraged to make an extra effort to reduce their use of plastic. However, while those efforts are important, individual action alone can only ever make a small dent in the plastic pollution crisis. We have to see action from the government to bring about lasting change.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cMicroplastics are now found in the ocean, in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, our blood, and even our placentas. It\u2019s everywhere, and it\u2019s not yet clear what health impacts that may lead to, but the oil and plastic industry just keeps pumping it out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Research shows there could be a l<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC10340669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ink between microplastics in the gut and early-onset colorectal cancer<\/a>, and there is evidence that chemical compounds linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.undp.org\/kosovo\/blog\/microplastics-human-health-how-much-do-they-harm-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">serious health issues<\/a> such as endocrine disruption, weight gain, insulin resistance, decreased reproductive health, and cancer can leach from plastic water bottles and enter our bodies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>After playing a key role in the campaign to ban plastic bags and to get the Government to begin phasing out some other single-use plastic products, Greenpeace is calling for a shift to a reusable model for drinks and a ban on single-use plastic bottles, which have thus far escaped any Government regulation despite being one of the main contributors to plastic pollution in New Zealand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cOver 100,000 people have signed <a href=\"https:\/\/petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz\/plastics-banbottles\">our petition calling on the Government to ban single-use plastic bottles<\/a>, and we hope this stark illustration of the sheer volume of plastic bottles sold in New Zealand every year will prompt even more people to join the call.\u201d<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\nvar 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