Plastic Bag Sculpture--the impact of plastic pollution

[Catherine]

Buffalo Zoo, both keepers and volunteers did a plastic bag sculpture of a polar bear.  They used the same number of bags as the average family uses in a year. That is 1500 bags. Each of these bags has an environmental impact.

http://wxxinews.org/post/buffalo-zoo-bag...ar-exhibit


Bags give off greenhouse gases in their manufacture. They end up in landfills where they don't break down. Worse they end up in our waterways and oceans where they cause animal deaths and contribute to the garbage island in the Pacific Ocean and other oceans.
This is how it ends up in our oceans.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/22...91294.html

This is the harm that plastic does.
http://ecowatch.com/2014/04/07/22-facts-...-about-it/

We really need to rethink our whole relationship to plastic. We can't go on using it and discarding it.  Our environment can't handle the impact.


http://sailorsforthesea.org/resources/oc...oCKYrw_wcB


I hope seeing the plastic bear will make people think.