Twelve years ago, oceanographer captain Charlie moor was skippering his yacht the yacht the Alguita in the North Pacific. He sailed into a mass of floating plastic rubbish which took him and his crew a week to cross. The floating rubbish dump is now called the Great pacific Garbage Patch & doubles size of the USA. The United Nations says there are now 18,000 pieces of plastic in every square kilometers of sea 🌊 everywhere in the world. A walk along any beach will give you some idea of the seriousness of plastic pollution. Scientists try to tell us that we are killing ourselves as well as other animals.
Alright, then. If we can’t use plastic bags, how do we carry home the shopping? Take a back pack or a folding shopping trolley. Change supermarket to one that provides biodegradable bags, made from potato starch for example. Use consumer power.
What I need to find now, is a supermarket that sells biodegradable bin liners, otherwise I still end up using plastic. In New Zealand everyone using special paper bin liners.
Think globally. Act locally. A small Australian town is now one step ahead of the rest of the world. Take care of the earth and vote for people we think will do the same. 💡
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