I was in Geneva this Summer for ten days and my husband was doing very political things and I then decided after hearing about the plastic in the Pacific ocean was if you pushed all the Islands together it would be an area as big as Germany! also there is an area in South America as the rivers are pushing the rubbish together. David Attenborough I thought would be the man to contact. David Attenborough's Blue Planet makes people aware of this thorny issue: what happens next to all the plastic. There is talk of a machine that can hoover all the Plastic into one manageable bunch. The plastic is leaching onto the sea bed, and contaminating all those in the sea. If you go for sea salt in the Supermarket that too has minuscule bits of plastic in it and as to the prawns they too are contaminated. When we think that these creatures from the sea are at least pristine and fresh.
We only have one planet and whether you believe in Global Warming or not, the ones that have put this fragile planet at risk are us. So we have to do something about it!
We have to all use less plastic, but that is difficult as may be we all use plastic toothbrushes.
We raised this issue on our Facebook page and it had a huge impact with over a thousand likes. This issue really concerns people, and thank heavens it does.
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Veronica Morris
