Environmental Advocate, Purva, Said Good Bye to Single Use Plastic Bags and now New Jersey is too.

Speaker 1: (00:00)
Hi, this is Jen from the GIRLBRAVE podcast. I welcome you today. I'm so excited to introduce you to our guest Purva who started a Bye Bye Plastic Bags New Jersey. And just recently it past that starting in the new year. They are no longer able to use single-use plastic bags or paper bags. 


Bye Bye Plastic Bags is a global movement of young people who are demanding change and specifically from adults and people who are kind of empower as elected officials and asking them to, first of all, push forward environmental legislation. And we kind of just came together as a community to start that off with saying no to plastic pollution and specifically single-use plastic bags. So across the world, we're seeing young people, um, demanding of their local legislation that they signed petitions and come together as a local community to stop plastic bags from being produced and being distributed in a community. 

So here in New Jersey, we were really inspired by the initial motivation between starting the organization. And we really wanted to create change and create a lasting environmental impact within New Jersey. So we kind of just, um, decided to go for it. And we started a team here and now I've been able to lead a team of over 40 students who are kind of just working together to push forward environmental legislation. 

Support the Show.