SO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT!
We ALL need to join the fight against single use plastics of all types, especially bags and bottles.
Starting today, I will endeavor to include a frightening fact about plastic, and a cautionary photo, in every post I make. I hope you will, too.
In my daily routine, most of the time I’ll just include a one or two sentence fact along with my regular post. And of course a picture.
But to kick things off, the entirety of this post is to open your eyes to the unthinkable damage our plastic is doing to our waters, our fish, our animals, our birds, and ourselves.
Here are the salient facts. You think the “Alien” movies are scary? The following is fact, not fiction, and the only heroes available to save the day are you and me.
Please join the anti plastic campaign, and recruit others to join, for the sake of…..everything and everyone that lives on this planet.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is located in the North Pacific Gyre off the coast of California and is the largest ocean garbage site in the world. This floating mass of plastic is twice the size of Texas, with plastic pieces outnumbering sea life six to one.
Plastic constitutes approximately 90 percent of all trash floating on the ocean’s surface, with 46,000 pieces of plastic per square mile.
One million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed annually from plastic in our oceans.
44 percent of all seabird species, 22 percent of cetaceans, all sea turtle species and a growing list of fish species have been documented with plastic in or around their bodies.
In samples collected in Lake Erie, 85 percent of the plastic particles were smaller than two-tenths of an inch, and much of that was microscopic. Researchers found 1,500 and 1.7 million of these particles per square mile.
Virtually every piece of plastic that was ever made still exists in some shape or form (with the exception of the small amount that has been incinerated).
Plastic chemicals can be absorbed by the body—93 percent of Americans age six or older test positive for BPA (a plastic chemical).
Some of these compounds found in plastic have been found to alter hormones or have other potential human health effects.
The enemy is ourselves. Only we can save the day. Are you in?
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