01-13-2017, 10:08 AM
Plastic rubbish is having a devastating effect generally on wildlife....but to see the floating seas of plastic, and to know the horrendous things this waste is doing to marine life and sea birds....well that is like something out of a horror film.
Thank you for posting this, platy.
I also am guilty in the past, of disposing of plastics of all kinds unrecyclable, into the general rubbish bin. That is supposed to get taken to a landfill. That started to worry and upset me years back now, and I thought -would I bury this rubbish in the earth? No.
Anyway that is no guarantee the plastics won't end up in the oceans. Landfills (bad enough!) obviously stay open, and items can be carried into water courses, or blow on the wind.
I now burn anything I can't recycle. It is the best solution I have come up with.
That can't really be the answer, as it pollutes the air. And anyway, not everyone has a corner of a field where animals don't graze, where the landowner doesn't mind them having a small bonfire either.
A very good solution is for us all to be thoughtful about what we buy, what it is packaged in, can it be recycled? I love the old fashioned brown paper bags which all shopping automatically used to be packaged in, from bread, to potatoes, and apples, etc but those are rare nowadays.
The supermarkets need to start packaging their food in 100% recyclable material.
Thank you for posting this, platy.
I also am guilty in the past, of disposing of plastics of all kinds unrecyclable, into the general rubbish bin. That is supposed to get taken to a landfill. That started to worry and upset me years back now, and I thought -would I bury this rubbish in the earth? No.
Anyway that is no guarantee the plastics won't end up in the oceans. Landfills (bad enough!) obviously stay open, and items can be carried into water courses, or blow on the wind.
I now burn anything I can't recycle. It is the best solution I have come up with.
That can't really be the answer, as it pollutes the air. And anyway, not everyone has a corner of a field where animals don't graze, where the landowner doesn't mind them having a small bonfire either.
A very good solution is for us all to be thoughtful about what we buy, what it is packaged in, can it be recycled? I love the old fashioned brown paper bags which all shopping automatically used to be packaged in, from bread, to potatoes, and apples, etc but those are rare nowadays.
The supermarkets need to start packaging their food in 100% recyclable material.
