How many people today grab a takeaway coffee cup from the local cafe to drink on the go? We don’t know, but the number must be enormous.. Most every one of the above have a plastic top that will last 100s of years. Some cafes still use plastic cups that last a similar time. Is 10 minutes of coffee worth 100s of years of trash?
These items can be seen littering our gutters and on our streets all over the place. If they were all cardboard, they would still be littered, but they would, at least, be gone in a short time.
They do not need to be made of plastic.
On the way home from the gym last week, a distance of about 1 km (1/2 mile), I counted the items of plastic litter on the curb as I walked. In that short distance I counted 63 pieces of plastic litter. Plastic drink bottles, bottle tops, candy wrappers, plastic film, polystyrene fragments etc. That seemed to be a lot to me. I guess it is a generational thing. Our parents would have been horrified to see that amount, whereas it seems to go unnoticed by our youth of today. In another 20 years how many pieces will there be on this stretch, -- 200? What will today’s youth think of that new amount then when they are older? Will their children be so readily accepting of a higher amount of litter? Pregnant whale dies from ingested rubbish – Australia
Posted on June 7, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifePlastic rubbish had blocked the stomach of a pregnant whale that washed up on a Melbourne beach, an autopsy has revealed.
Source: Pregnant whale dies from ingested rubbish
A pregnant whale that washed up on a beach in Melbourne’s western suburbs was stricken by a stomach filled with plastic and kelp, an autopsy has revealed.
The 2.4-metre pygmy sperm whale was spotted in distress on a beach at Williamstown in late May and euthanised after rescue attempts failed.
The whale had ingested plastic that blocked its stomach outflow, and it’s suspected it then ate kelp – which is not typical of its species – as it felt unwell.
The whale’s condition rapidly deteriorated after it was spotted by a commercial fisherman washed up in the Jawbone Marine Sanctuary on May 21.
Authorities and veterinary staff tried to take the whale into deeper waters, but it was unable to swim unaided.
It was euthanised after rescuers tried unsuccessfully for hours to save it.
The Department of Environment urged people to dispose of rubbish properly after autopsy results revealed plastic and kelp in the whale’s stomach led to its demise.
Senior wildlife officer Suriya Vij said the human impact on marine wildlife was “devastating”
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