Plastic Rubbish
Discussion
The hot topic at the moment seems to be plastic rubbish.
bottles and other plastic rubbish on our beaches, in our beauty spots, in the rivers.
Link to the good old Daily Mail. The Daily Mail will never let you down.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5130731/Be...
Piece on BBC1 Breakfast show this morning about the rubbish on beaches in Dorset and Weston super Mare(sp?)
Well don't stand there staring at it! Pick it up! Put it in the rubbish bin!
If everyone who got their phone out and took a photo of a plastic bottle had taken ten seconds to pick it up, it wouldn't be there for someone to tutt over tomorrow.
Don't gawp at it - pick it up!
bottles and other plastic rubbish on our beaches, in our beauty spots, in the rivers.
Link to the good old Daily Mail. The Daily Mail will never let you down.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5130731/Be...
Piece on BBC1 Breakfast show this morning about the rubbish on beaches in Dorset and Weston super Mare(sp?)
Well don't stand there staring at it! Pick it up! Put it in the rubbish bin!
If everyone who got their phone out and took a photo of a plastic bottle had taken ten seconds to pick it up, it wouldn't be there for someone to tutt over tomorrow.
Don't gawp at it - pick it up!
The point that I was endeavouring to make in my gentle fashion was:-
Instead of just moaning about it, how long would it take for each town in the UK that has a beach to have ten volunteers pick up the rubbish from their beach? Then each week a couple of worthy individuals could walk the length of the beach and pick up any fresh plastic that has arrived - it wouldn't take long because there wouldn't be very much fresh stuff. Because the rubbish is plastic it doesn't degrade or decompose, so we are looking at the same rubbish all the time!
Don't keep moaning about it and getting the BBC down to film it, put that effort into picking it up!
Instead of just moaning about it, how long would it take for each town in the UK that has a beach to have ten volunteers pick up the rubbish from their beach? Then each week a couple of worthy individuals could walk the length of the beach and pick up any fresh plastic that has arrived - it wouldn't take long because there wouldn't be very much fresh stuff. Because the rubbish is plastic it doesn't degrade or decompose, so we are looking at the same rubbish all the time!
Don't keep moaning about it and getting the BBC down to film it, put that effort into picking it up!
g7orge said:
PurpleMoonlight said:
Am I missing something?
Surely the problem is people indiscriminately discarding it, not the plastic itself.
+1Surely the problem is people indiscriminately discarding it, not the plastic itself.
People staring at it and saying "Ooh! Look at that plastic rubbish there that someone has dropped!"
Instead of picking it up and putting it in a bin.
DurianIceCream said:
The Mad Monk said:
Well don't stand there staring at it! Pick it up! Put it in the rubbish bin!
It's gone beyond just picking it up. There is about 8 million tonnes of new plastic entering the oceans each year. If you pick it up, there will be a new bit to replace it tomorrow. And the day after. And the day after that. So am I.
My response of "Pick it up" is a first reaction. Simplistic, if you like. If it's in front of you, on the beach, pick it up. Otherwise it may go out on the next tide, come into the beach two miles along the coast and someone else will stare at it tomorrow and moan 'look at that mess'.
We need government backed initiatives to remove all the bigger stuff washing around in the the oceans.
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