MEMBER NEWS ‘Some wild corals are
feeding on tiny shreds of plastic trash’
The National Geographic is running Planet or Plastic?, a multi-year effort
to raise awareness about the global crisis. By visiting their site, you can take a pledge to do more and you can keep visiting to keep learning. If we teach our children and grandchildren about the damage single use
plastic does and what they can do to change this, then they will pass it on to the next generation and the problem will eventually get better. In December 2018, Great Britain’s Royal Statistical Society announced its
statistic of the year which is 90.5%, this is the estimated amount of plastic waste ever made that has never been recycled. Estimated at 6,300 million metric tonnes, scientists calculated that around 12% of all plastic waste has been incinerated, while roughly 79% has found its way into landfills or become litter. This needs to change. Scientists have for the first time shown that some wild corals are feeding on tiny shreds of plastic trash. Worse, the plastic is carrying bacteria that can kill them. Visit
www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/planetorplastic to take
the pledge as a family, watch the videos and read the blogs. We owe it to the environment to learn more to enable us to do more.
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