Editing Earth Day (section)

=== Earth Day 2024 ===
The theme for Earthday.org 2024 is Planet vs. Plastics and to mark that Earthday.org has called for a 60% global reduction in plastic production by 2040.<ref>{{Cite web |date=n.d. |title=Planet vs. Plastics |url=https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2024/ |access-date=January 19, 2024 |publisher=earthday.org}}</ref>

In November 2023, to bring public attention to the health threat that [[microplastics]] pose, earthday.org released its report Babies vs. Plastics, which collated some of the latest science on the subject. The Guardian newspaper carried an Op Ed about the report highlighting that it is the children of the Global South who are being the most impacted by exposure to microplastics.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Frias |first1=J.P.G.L. |last2=Nash |first2=Roisin |date=January 2019 |title=Microplastics: Finding a consensus on the definition |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X18307999 |journal=Marine Pollution Bulletin |volume=138 |pages=145–147 |bibcode=2019MarPB.138..145F |doi=10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.11.022 |pmid=30660255 |s2cid=58550075 |access-date=January 19, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=July 3, 2023 |title=The Global South is on the rise – but what exactly is the Global South? |url=https://theconversation.com/the-global-south-is-on-the-rise-but-what-exactly-is-the-global-south-207959 |access-date=January 19, 2023 |publisher=The Conservation}}</ref>