Plastic Bags
Unlike naturally occurring compounds, plastic does not photo-degrade, it simply breaks up into ever-smaller pieces and lingers in the environment as an invisible toxic dust.
THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH article (with some very depressing photos) by the Institute for Figuring
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I hear a flapping noise; look up thinking “a bird” only to see a brightly lit plastic bag stuck in the tree branch, thrashing about in the wind. We live close to a big supermarket and the sight of the abandoned plastic bags is sadly very common. Luckily not all plastic bags end up polluting our environment at the end of their lives. Some of them are fortunate enough to be turned into the beautiful artwork (Rubbish Vortex and Crochet Sea Creatures by Helle Jorgensen)
2 comments:
We recently bought green mesh bags for groceries, etc. I love them! They're stronger, easier to carry, hold more groceries....and I can use them over and over again!!
I like the German way of charging for the plastic bags. One store is introducing it in UK, so maybe others will follow.
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