A Plastic Ocean, Plastic Beaches?
We have to seriously reduce, marginalize, eliminate the need for plastics, much of it packaging, and much else that is just junk or could be made of something else. Plastic can be recycled into some useful products, however, recycling in general just uses up more energy, and then we’re making more plastic and the cycle goes on. Until more and more of it shows up in our environment, as giant globs of plastic forming in our oceans and polluting our shores indicates.
Once the word was “Plastics!” (made famous by “The Graduate”). Now it should be “Plastics – Not!”
Plastics in our oceans and on our beaches