I took it as irony, Jan.
In the TV programme that I watched (in part, it was too depressing to watch
continuously) there are shearwater chicks fledging on an island in the Tasman
sea that cannot swim because of the weight of plastic in their gut. There are
three rafts of plastic in the oceans, I understand: the one in the Pacific is
three times the size of France.
We are eating plastic, now that it’s in the food chain (or soon will be);
animals from turtles to whales are living horrible lives entangled in plastic.
It goes on . . .
Chris
> On 7 Oct 18, at 05:39, Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
>>
>>> And to add to my misery, we watched a programme on the proliferation of
>>> plastic in the sea and other bodies of water . . .
>>
>> Problem solved. Plastic straws are being banned.
>
> "Solved?" Plastic straws are much less than 1% of the plastic in the Pacific
> Gyre.
>
> The problem is single-use plastic, period. But a bigger problem would be the
> cost of gathering up and recycling ALL single-use plastic, which the plastics
> industry tell us would be exorbitantly expensive.
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