1. Who will
save the
World?
Are you a Superhero?

2. You will have to be a Superhero
• Your generation will be
the most important
ever.
• In 40 years’ time the
world’s oil will have run
out.
• In 54 years, the
rainforests - the lungs
of the world - will all
have been destroyed.

3. What will save the world?
• Lots of small actions…
• Done everyday….
• By millions of people
like you…

4. • 50 simple,
everyday
actions
that can
change the
world…
• …if enough
people do
them.

5. How many plastic bags do
you think your Mum or Dad
use in a year?

6. 134 Bags a Year!
• Every person in the country uses an average of 134
plastic bags every year.
• That’s 8,000,000,000 bags a year in the UK.

7. How long does a Plastic bag
take to rot?

8. 500 Years for a Plastic Bag
to Rot
• If you put a bag in the soil in 1506
it would just be rotting now.
• In 1506…
• Henry V11 was King, Henry
V111’s father!
• Leonardo da Vinci was still painting
the Mona Lisa
• People still thought that the Sun
moved round the Earth.

9. What’s the alternative?

10. A Proper Shopping Bag

11. A Bright Idea
• An Energy-Saving
Light-Bulb uses just
one quarter of the
electricity of
ordinary light-bulbs.
• They also last 10
times longer.

12. Calculate the Saving
• If energy-saving bulbs cost £3.50 and normal bulbs
cost 50p…
• But energy-saving bulbs last 1000 days instead of
100…
• …and they cost 10p a day to run instead of 40p…
• How much is saved by the time the energy-saving bulb
blows?

13. One Light Bulb Can Save
£297
• £297 saved by just one
light-bulb!
• If an office switched all
its lights off overnight,
instead of leaving them
on, for over a year….
• ..It would save enough
electricity to power two
and a half schools for a
year!

14. Chewing Gum
• It’s sticky It’s messy It ruins clothes
• It gets stuck to pavements, walls everywhere.

15. How much does it cost to
clear up
Britain’s chewing-gum?

16. One Hundred and Fifty
Million Pounds
• 35p to buy a pack, 15p
to clear it up.
• It costs £150 million
pounds to clear up all
the chewing gum that
people don’t put in the
bin.
• £150 million would build
3 new hospitals…
• Or employ 8,500
teachers.

17. Turn the Tap Off
Whilst
Brushing Your Teeth
• Most of us leave the tap on
whilst cleaning our teeth
• This wastes 9 litres of water a
minute.
• Most people in poor countries
use only 10 litres in a whole day
for everything…cooking,
washing, cleaning, drinking.

18. If everyone in the street where you live,
leaves the tap on whilst brushing their
teeth, how much water does it waste in a
year?

19. An Olympic Swimming Pool

20. Planet Earth is Dying
• Tropical Rainforests cover just 2% of Earth’s land
surface but are home to two-thirds of all living
species.
• They have existed in their present form for 70 to
100 million years, spared the loss of life caused
elsewhere by the Ice Age.

21. The Rainforests are
Disappearing
• Every two seconds
we lose an area of
rainforest the size
of a football field.

22. The Rainforests
are Disappearing
• Every day we lose an
area larger than New
York City.
• Every year we lose an
area more than twice
the size of Florida.
• By 2025 half the
remaining rainforests
will be gone; by 2060
they will have gone
forever.

24. We are what we do
“We must be the
change we
want to see in the
world”
Gandhi