A load of Junk
one creatures rubbish is another's treasure. Nature has it's own way of cleaning up - seagulls, cockroaches, rodents and flies carry off their spoil, and scavenging bacteria slowly break down even the hardest plastics. Human beings, unfortunately, are less dedicated to clearing up their waste.
Excessive consumption and rampant greed have caused the meaningless acquisitiveness of modern societies world-wide, and insufficient provision made for what we do with the old and the empty. Fly-tipping is on the increase. Lorries drive at dead of night to abandoned industrial sites and remote beauty spots to dump mounds of rotting vegetables and builders' rubble rather than spend time and money on recycling it. Even more worringly, chemical and medical waste is also being made to vanish on this way.
A rubbish dump twice
the size of the U.S. has been discovered floating in the pacific ocean. It stretches from 500 nautical miles off the californian coast, across the northern Pacific past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan. The vast expanse of the debris, made up of plastic Junk including footballs, Kayaks Lego blocks and carrier bags, is kept
together by swirling underwater ... It takes a yacht a week to sail through it. Because the rubbish is translucent and ties just below the water's surfaces it cannot be seen in satellite photographs. Cruise Ships use the Caribbean as a rubbish bin.
Around a fifth of sea Junk is thrown off ships or oil platforms - the rest comes from the land.
The rubbish island could double in size over the next decade if consumers do not cut back on their use of plastics. More than a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals die every year as a result of plastic pollution. Syringes, cigarette lighters and tooth brushes have all been found inside the stomachs of dead seabirds. This rubbish can also be dangerous for humans because tiny plastic pellets in the sea can attract man-made chemicals which then enter the food-chain when fish eat them. what goes into the ocean ends up on our dinner plate.
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