Plastics are just dreadful. Yet we have to have life with them. Getting away from them now is almost completely impossible. I remember when I was a little child in the 1950s. Most things did not come in plastics. People used shopping bags or baskets to go shopping. Food was stored in ceramic dishes or glass. Milk came in glass bottles....food items we bought from small shops were wrapped in greaseproof paper, or even newspaper.....I can remember the Tupperware explosion which happened early 60s. Everyone had to have Tupperware all of a sudden....then cling-film, etc. Then supermarket plastic bags. And now everything is plastic.
Now -okay, I accept that we have to have plastic in our lives....but what I'd like to ask is -what are these items doing IN THE SEA? How the heck do they get there?!
Rhetorical question really. Answer: someone, somewhere DUMPS them in there!
People dump plastics on my lane (soda bottles, fast-food wrappers, yogurt cartons.....) Of course I pick them up. But I am getting annoyed about it. I would like to put a sign up at the end of my lane saying "Anyone intending to throw anything out of their car windows, which will not break down in 300 years or even more -has to pay a toll to pass."
Now -okay, I accept that we have to have plastic in our lives....but what I'd like to ask is -what are these items doing IN THE SEA? How the heck do they get there?!
Rhetorical question really. Answer: someone, somewhere DUMPS them in there!
People dump plastics on my lane (soda bottles, fast-food wrappers, yogurt cartons.....) Of course I pick them up. But I am getting annoyed about it. I would like to put a sign up at the end of my lane saying "Anyone intending to throw anything out of their car windows, which will not break down in 300 years or even more -has to pay a toll to pass."
