The Proliferating Problem of Plastics

I recently read this article in Rolling Stone, and was grateful for the detailed reporting on a subject that I have followed, but not in such depth.  PLASTICS.  We are killing Mother Earth with plastics.

The story is pretty familiar.  Big companies have been using plastics all over the globe, dumping waste into our water and polluting without compassion.  I look in the big plastic recycle bin in our garage, the one that fills up and goes to the curb every two weeks, and I am amazed at what two people generate.  The paper and plastic is enormous, especially now, right after the Christmas season.  It is all orchestrated by Big Oil.

I have been a monthly supporter of 4Ocean.com for more than a year.  A relatively small donation to their cause, and I get a bracelet in the mail each month.  I've got a dozen sitting near my desk as the two I have on my right wrist have been there for more than a year. Never taken them off.  I wear them as constant reminder to me of the plight facing Mother Earth.  

I support 4Ocean, I recycle... but what we need is huge legislative changes that will protect our earth, especially our water.  Hopefully the Biden administration will move all of us ahead.

God only knows how much plastic we each have in our bodies, micro-particles absorbed through the air we breath and the water we drink and the food we eat.  

The article noted at the top of this post is long, and the plastics that are polluting Mother Earth will last even longer.

Let's do something.  Anything and everything will help.