We already know that the sea is full of plastic. Everything that ends between bags, bottles, caps and waves is less than a hundred thousand years ago, becoming microscopic pieces, eating fish, and so on. In fact, they never disappear completely. The presence of plastic waste is so great that we put coffee in our honey or we eat when we drink a beer. They are in any place, we do not allow them to create, discard, and eat. And we can do something to dampen this witch wheel: first of all, awareness, and then commit. In support of these two actions, there are some mobile applications that make this reality available to you and help you to support plastic production.

 

It is designed to make you aware of the severity of the account, and to make it very clear from one day to the other. Trivial proposes a similar game, with information on ocean pollution and the consumption of personal plastic. And then, personalized challenges, to reduce the consumption of plastic, especially in those single uses.

 

Challenges fit your profile: you can choose whether you are a family with children, worried about whether plastic steps are left at home, a lover of oceans or a city citizen, who wants to design a style of life that is free of plastic. After choosing that, it will tell you how much a person like you consumes an average or a certain amount of plastic per year.

 

It proposes commitments that you can accept and reject. For example: "When ordering a drink, I will ask that you not put a strawberry on it," and it will evaluate how much plastic you will reduce with this commitment. "How many bulbs you have to refuse to reject every week?" If you refuse every 3 hours, you are reducing the plastic 15 grams per week.

 

With time, sunlight and waves, a plastic bottle is reduced to microscopic particles. This leads to a very serious contamination: it is no longer enough to pick up what we see, because everything is full of plastic that we do not see. Actually, microplastics do not come to disappear, they are becoming increasingly smaller plastic parts. They become nanoplastic.

 

For example, the 'Beat the microbead' app scans the personal care products bar codes and tells the user that there are microparticles there. To achieve this, it uses a database and a camera phone. The application does not recognize all the products on the market but allows the user to complete the database by adding new products.