Written by: Matthew Perry
2021
As part of its Planet or Plastic campaign, National Geographic teamed up with Emirates Golf Club to support the Club in reducing its usage of single-use plastic. Emirates Golf Club is focusing primarily on reducing its use of plastic water bottles, which stood at 200,000 plastic bottles distributed at the Club in 2017.
Plastic bottles are one of the key single-use plastic pollutants globally, with staggering statistics indicating that 40% of plastic is used just once and the lifespan of a single-use plastic water bottle is 15 minutes and average decomposition rate of the same bottle is over 450 years.
Emirates Golf Club has joined forces with National Geographic to raise awareness among the community. As a result of the campaign, Emirates Golf Club announced that is committed to reducing its use of plastic bottles, straws and bag, across the Club and the Dubai Golf, starting in 2019.