Sea Lion rescued from ocean garbage

[Catherine]

You are so right. We seem to think that water is a magic waste disposal unit. People dump into the oceans, they dump into the lakes and they dump into the rivers. People here flush things that are toxic and are surprized to find that our lake is now full of the toxic things they flushed. Where did they think that the water is going. I is treated, but not that well. There are limits to what can be filtered out.

Our storm sewers go straight to the lake and people think nothing of dumping waste into them. The lake drains into a river, that drains into and ocean.

Maybe we need to teach waste management and water cycles to children in kindergarten so that they grow up understanding. If we don't do something it will be more than a few seals that are in trouble.