Highlights of our Brainstorm session conducted on 26th November,2021 : To watch/listen to the session on FB please clicke here @ https://fb.watch/9Alwm16gH7/ TOPIC: Topic : Share your Ideas to REDUCE I REUSE I RECYCLE plastic. Curated Questions:  -Can we eliminate the usage of plastic? What are its impacts? -How can we approach a balanced usage of plastic? Panel for the session : Panelists

1. Hoodh Ibrahim - Rapporteur for Asia Pacific, UNESCO
2. Jessica Gu Wenhua Gregory :Member of female led nonprofit XPRIZE team: ACTNOW Amazonas Alliance,Focus on global solutions,Background in Data Science.
3. Hussain Riyaz - President, Maldives Island Conservation Project
4. Ottilie Aban Kumar : Founder & Director of 'Evolve Lives Foundation 'Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Psychologist, Environmentalist and Social Activist.
5. Hussain Fayaz - Senior Executive Director, Ministry of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment.
6.  Mr Adam Naseer from Co founder of Dhidhdoo, Kurimagu Jamiyyaa, Former state ministers in president Nasheed Gov.

Key points :

1. There is now 5.25 trillion macro and micro pieces of plastic in our ocean & 46,000 pieces in every square mile of ocean, weighing up to 269,000 tonnes. Every day around 8 million pieces of plastic makes their way into our oceans. Impacting our marine life to a great extent - And as we all know the earth is one - meaning its a mirror effect when any part of the world has been impacted specially when to comes to the nature.
2. Versus banning plastic which would cause inflation on exports we should move with ideas/strategies where we can balance the use of plastic.
3.  Every individual should be made aware and they should use plastic with responsibility.
4. The minimize the use of plastic the public, private and citizens to come together and work on the solution.