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turtle swimming free in a non plastic sea |
You see the tiny
micro plastics are so small they pass straight through water
filtering systems and drainage systems, then they are ingested by
fish and sea birds as well as other sea life.
Our oceans are in
jeopardy and the way to tackle the problem is to do it first on dry
land ,we need to dramatically cut down our plastic use and move over
to a more eco-friendly way of packaging produce and other stuff that
uses plastics. Now I am not a big fan of paper bags as to make them
you need to cut down trees and that is defeating the purpose of
saving the planet, you cannot use one to save the other as you are
just shifting the problem . Scientists have found an ingenious way of
creating packaging and bags from plant fibres and plant matter , now
this matter is grown in the lab and it will breakdown quickly and
turn to compost , there for helping the environment with out cutting
down trees that filter our air and produce oxygen.
Now back to the sea,
some research groups are using nets to drag the floating plastics out
of the oceans and removing them before they can fully breakdown and
become micro toxic particles that keep braking down even when
ingested !. Others have taken to beach clean ups as well as making
wind prof bins available that keep the rubbish inside and they have
added penalty fins to any found dropping rubbish . But I must still
add, more needs to be done as its every ones problem and we must work
together to save our seas and to keep our food and water clean as its
not just killing sea life , its killing other life too and even
possibly human life as those toxins may cause cancer or other
illnesses .
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