Designing a Hashtag Campaign: Youth Action for Environmental Issues

This essay presents a proposal for a youth-oriented hashtag campaign aimed at addressing pressing environmental issues such as poor waste disposal and water scarcity. The campaign, centered around the hashtag '#youthenvironmentaction,' seeks to raise awareness among young people about the importance of environmental stewardship, promote responsible waste management practices including recycling, and encourage water conservation efforts. By leveraging social media platforms and engaging youth developmental organizations, the campaign aims to foster a sense of environmental responsibility and inspire action towards creating a healthier and more sustainable future. The essay draws inspiration from successful campaigns like '#Lets Recycle Right' and emphasizes the critical role of youth in driving positive environmental change.

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Two Alarming Environmental Issues
The importance of healthy environment cannot be underestimated. Unfortunately, human
beings being the anthropocentric part of the environment have been the major cause for alarms
connected to the environment (Mohammad, 2019). It admittedly bad that the same human beings
are dying because of the unhealthy environment they create for themselves. Therefore, it is our
responsibility as humans to take appropriate actions towards making our environment sustainable
and better.
Poor waste disposal and water pollution and scarcity are two issues that should be throttled to
dead. This is because they are not only making our environment unsafe for human life but also
bring about the sense of environmental injustice. Their existence is devastating to the whole
world. The complaints about smelling garbage are not only the alarms caused by poor waste
disposal, health is the issue. Waste is a threat to the earth habitants that endangers humans in all
ways from food, water and air; to mention a few. Human life expectance reduces silently just
because of improper disposal of waste.
Water is part of the human body. Unsafe water means unhealthy body tissues which can lead
to the very many heathy complications we experience today. Moreover, water scarcity is among
the major issues that hit news headlines nowadays (Mallick & Bajpai, 2019). Water scarcity in
anthropocentric view means, water can be available in plenty but still be scarce for human
consumption. Lack of drinkable water is the alarm and headache that we need to cure.
Many deaths, diseases and alleged environmental racism take place just because of poor
actions or insufficient energy focus upon the fight against these hazardous environmental issues.
Fighting these issues and reducing their occurrence to zero is a praiseworthy activity that should
be held upon through environmental awareness campaigns, programs and seminars.

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The ‘#LETS RECYCLE RIGHT’
Among the praiseworthy social media campaigns is the ‘#Lets Recycle Right’ environmental
conservation campaign. The influence that the celebrities made through this campaign is
tremendous and remains tickling and ringing in more that ninety percent of the Americans and
more than sixty percent of the world’s social media funs. It is admittedly true that the celebrity
campaign was of great importance to the whole world; not only to Americans and one of its
vitality was the way it earned millions of across America, from buying bins to opening of
recycling plants (Kormos & Gifford, 2014). Moreover, the influence of this campaign is solid
important and influential because let to not only reduction of garbage in the years 2016-2017 but
also improvement of the environmental cleanliness, reduction of waste going to the oceans s well
as improvement of the United States economy. The campaign was backed up even by TV
stations and magazines such as the New York Times and was even on billboards.
My Environmental conservation Hashtags Campaign
The importance of healthy environment needs to be backed up and brightly illuminated for the
whole world to implement or take appropriate actions rather. I want to strongly beef up the
strength of the environmentalists by creating a campaign that will target the youths. If we want
the world to be a better place even in future, we need to enlighten, make the youth aware that
their health, wellbeing and life is dependent on a healthy environment.
I will use most of the social media platforms that are youth oriented to put across this
information. An easy way to get the youth attention on social media is through the use of
hashtags. Among the hashtags that I will use are:

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 #Youthenvironmentaction
 #Savewatersavelife
 #Youthpolutionaction
 #Cleanenvironforfuture
Among them, the ‘#youthenvironmentaction’ tag is the most suitable for a campaign since it
will cover much of the environmental sectors and will easy earn support even from the very
many youth developmental programs or organizations.
The main purposes of the ‘#youthenvironmentaction’ campaign is to shed light on proper
waste disposal, environmental justice especially to the minority, public health, sensitize on
importance of recycling waste, encouraging businesses, communities, universities, and cities to
display standardized labels on recycle bins. Moreover, the campaign will illuminate the
importance of saving the available clean water and stop leaving taps running when brushing teeth
or soaping up in showers. On waste disposal, the campaign will create awareness on ways to
reduce the amount of waste through recycling. In the campaign, we will hit hard on the
importance of the use of products that can be recycled and piled up in composites (Jindal, 2019).
On average, every person generates 4.6 pounds of trash daily, which is a devastating amount.
This might get out of control the appropriate measures are not takes. The campaign will sensitize
on recyclable products as a way of controlling the waste. Moreover, an approximation of 780
million people in the world has no access to clean water. This is not only in the undeveloped
countries but also in the whole world. Creating awareness on ways of saving water will be of
great help.

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