Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and held annually on 5 June 1973, the World Environment Day is the largest global platform for environmental public outreach and is celebrated by millions of people across the world.

Every year, millions of tonnes of plastic waste enter our oceans, entangling and killing marine creatures like whales and sea turtles that mistake it for food, and breaking apart into harmful microplastics that cannot be cleaned up. Plastic pollution is jeopardizing human health and harming marine animals like whales and sea turtles at alarming rates.

Plastics can take hundreds or even thousands of years to degrade, and most don’t biodegrade completely. Instead, they gradually break down into tiny pieces of plastic called microplastics. These microplastics are significantly harder to remove from the environment than larger bottles, straws, and takeout boxes. Microplastics can break down into such tiny, widely polluting molecules that they have even recently been found in human blood and organs.

According to UN Environment Program by 2050, it is predicted that there will be 12 billion tonnes of plastic waste in the natural environment.

At Panorama Travel, we’ve experimented with calculating the average single-use plastic per guest on our 10-14 day tours and found it to be equal to 3kg per guest. Now multiply that by the more than 3 million travelers in Oman and look at the huge number of non-recyclable single-use plastics that are produced by tourism activities in Oman.

From 5th June 2023, we will eliminate the consumption of single-use plastics in all tours. We need you to join us and demand that these companies take concrete actions to reduce their production of single-use plastic that has now turned into a Plastic Monster. We need to ship their monster back before it takes over our planet.

It is time for corporations like Nestle, Unilever, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo., Colgate, Danone, Johnson & Johnson, and Mars to invest in alternative ways to deliver their products to us and to stop using single-use plastic!