HAPPENING TODAY
PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK AND WATCH THE VIDEO.
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/50002132/#50002132
This is happening right
now and demonstrates
the urgent need for
each one of us to
become consciously
aware of how our
plastic debris is
destroying our oceans
sustainability and
killing our marine life.
A report that aired on November 28th 2012 on NBC' Nightly News broadcast hosted by Brian Williams shows just how much plastic waste from Japan's Tsunami is impacting the Kamilo Beach in Hawaii and killing our marine life with a 10 mile stretch of 3 to 4 inches of debris.
It is important to note that even though this debris is coming from a Tsunami the same thing is happening all over the world on other beaches that is related to human consumption and our disposal habits of plastic waste. This does not need to be happening for each and everyone of us can take small or large steps in our everyday lives to stop the pollution of our oceans and the killing our marine life that will have an impact.
After watching the video if you want to lean more about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and Gyres scroll down the right side of the blog to Archives and click on the post titled Distributions of Plastic Waste In Our Oceans.
That was SICKENING!!! I have been using cloth bags for years at Aldis and have only seen a few other people do so (noticed this at Dillions, too). If I knew how or had the equipment I would take the beach picture and put it on my bags. Gonna have to think about it and figure something out.
ReplyDeleteJo
ReplyDeleteThat is a good idea. You might want to share that as a suggestion with others on the what you can do to eliminate plastic waste posy. Just think if a lot of people were to put a pictures like that on their cloth bags when they went to the store it just might get others to thinking about their own use of plastic bags and get them to start using cloth bags instead.