OUR PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS

To encourage workshop participants to reduce their consumption of plastic bottles, we provide reusable water bottles. The design of the bottles incorporates drawings of flora and fauna of Indonesia that are threatened because of plastic pollution. The drawings used were colored by students during the first of the four workshops that comprise a MUDFISH NO PLASTIC student workshop program.

Many of the locations where we run our educational programs and distribute reusable water bottles do not have water filter dispensers for the students to refill their bottles. In those cases, we provide water filter dispensers to the school.  We also provide water filters to the families of fisherman that do not have access to clean water.

To encourage workshop participants to reduce their consumption of plastic shopping bags, we provide reusable tote bags that they design themselves using fabric pieces and acrylic paints.  We have the students design the art for their tote bag to encourage them to be proud of their artwork and more likely to use the bag when they are shopping.  As with the student decoraged bottles we provide, the tote bags are intended to impress on the students that they have the power to create something that can reduce the use of single-use plastic. Our goal is for all the participants to be part of the solution and realize that the power for change is in their hands.

Disposable menstrual pads are a major pollutant in Indonesia.  During our women’s health workshops, we provide reusable menstrual pads and menstrual cups to young women as a practical solution as part of our workshop that deals with menstruation health awareness and sexual education.