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Ways to get involved + learn more:
https://www.earthday.org/act-on-plastic-pollution/
https://campaigning.friendsoftheearth.uk/plastics/get-your-council-go-plastic-free
https://www.wsj.com/articles/plastic-bans-what-you-need-to-know-11561195802
https://www.clf.org/blog/the-truth-about-plastic-bag-bans/
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/single-use-plastics-101

Do you know where the money of your offsets is actually going? Is it planting trees ? And will it resolve climate change? Please don't forget to follow me on Instagram and Pinterest @sustainabudget and check out my website (sustainabudget.wordpress.com) Happy offsetting 😊 xoxo Micol with sustain budget
Legit carbon offset website (national geographic approved) :
1. https://www.cooleffect.org/travel-offset Main Bibliography:
2. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/what-are-carbon-offsets
3. https://www.transportenvironment.org/news/85-offsets-failed-reduce-emissions-says-eu-study
4. https://features.propublica.org/brazil-carbon-offsets/inconvenient-truth-carbon-credits-dont-work-deforestation-redd-acre-cambodia/
5. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200218-climate-change-how-to-cut-your-carbon-emissions-when-flying
6. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49349566
7. https://www.vice.com/en/article/kbzn9w/carbon-colonialism-the-new-scramble-for-africa
8. http://landandpeople.blogspot.com/2008/01/carbon-colonialism.html#:~:text=Carbon%20colonialism%20is%20about%20treating,of%20Northern%20consumers%20and%20companies.
9. https://www.transportenvironment.org/newsroom/blog/airline-offsetting-distraction-policies-can-actually-reduce-emissions
10. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/news-forests-climate-summit-sustainability
11. https://www.vox.com/2020/2/27/20994118/carbon-offset-climate-change-net-zero-neutral-emissions
12. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/jun/16/climatechange.climatechange
13. https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/the-biggest-problem-with-carbon-offsetting-is-that-it-doesnt-really-work/#:~:text=Updates-,The%20biggest%20problem%20with%20carbon%20offsetting%20is%20that%20it%20doesn,atmosphere%20in%20the%20first%20place.
14. https://www.atmosfair.de/en/the-additionality-problem-of-carbon-offset-projects/#:~:text=The%20problem%20highlighted%20by%20DN%20is%20that%20of%20%E2%80%9Cadditionality%E2%80%9D.&text=This%20is%20because%20%E2%80%9Cadditionality%E2%80%9D%20is,possible%20without%20money%20from%20offsets.
15. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263968322_Virtual_nature_violent_accumulation_The_%27spectacular_failure%27_of_carbon_offsetting_at_a_Ugandan_National_Park
16. https://medium.com/climate-conscious/is-carbon-offsetting-a-scam-c8f42df56e59