Plastic waste in seas/oceans

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Why is it though these programmes/articles fail to show/blame the countries that's beaches/ river banks are covered knee deep in waste of all kind, especially plastic waste and try to lay the guilt trip on us.

I’m not sure why you think they are trying to put the blame on ‘us’ as you say.  Though on the other hand surely, we should be thankful for those who are highlighting the issue.  It is absolutely and utterly out of control.  And in turn this will only change through pressure, public pressure, ie – us.

We used to get drinks in glass bottles, now they're plastic, we used to have paper bags... etc etc
Why does fruit and veg need to come in plastic wrappers? Or eggs or meat?

Spot on.  I could have a major rant on “What gets my Goat” about all the pointless useless packaging I come home with every time I visit the supermarket.  But don’t forget it’s packaged this way to sell it to us.  I may hate it, but clearly it sells.

As for everybody putting everything nicely into the correct bin.  Well I’ve parked my car in many laybys at the side of trunk roads all over Scotland as I work my way round various hills.  A great many of these laybys resemble mini land fill sites.  Why?

So yeah I’m all in favour of these programmes and articles etc… One way or another we’ll get the packaging we deserve. :rolleyes :eek :lol


One thing I hope we see highlighted and see more often – is dump your packaging days.  You do your shop at the supermarket, and then before you pack it in your bags, you unpack it at the till and leave all the unnecessary useless packaging at the till for the supermarket to bin/recycle.



And don’t forget, at the end of the day, it’s not just the wildlife eating plastic, we are now eating it too.

What has the plastic bag tax achieved?

An 86% reduction in single use bags.

I notice the supermarkets are already making the '5p' bags thinner and smaller already.

Some supermarkets have done away with them, hopefully all the others will follow.

how many turtles have actually been saved?

None.  We are still dumping way too much plastic, left right and centre.