Matt Damon: ‘Children are drinking water so dirty it looks like chocolate milk’

OddTrader · May 9, 2017

OddTrader said:
The real pieces of oceanic plastic garbage are typically smaller than your pinky fingernail.

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Plastic oceans and our health: What we can do

Ruby the Climate Kid 2 May 2017

https://independentaustralia.net/en...ic-oceans-and-our-health-what-we-can-do,10255

Ruby the Climate Kid may be only six-years-old, but she is on a mission to educate and influence the global community to wake up to the scientifically proven, devastating effects of pollution on our oceans and our health. Today, she inspires us to make small changes and #saynotoplastic.

DURING the school holidays, I watched a documentary called A Plastic Ocean and I had to watch a whale die a slow and painful death.

The whale died of malnutrition from his digestive system being blocked by six metres worth of plastic.

I cried, but I didn’t look away. I think too many people look away and ignore what is happening to our planet and all of the amazing creatures in the ecosystems we are destroying.

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The documentary got me thinking: if we are throwing away so much plastic, why isn’t it being recycled? How much are we using? Are there alternatives?

Did you know that we use over 300 million tonnes of new plastic every year and most of that is single-use, used for an average of 12 minutes and then thrown away? Eight million tonnes of that plastic waste ends up in the ocean.

Over 500 billion plastic bags are used every year worldwide, with more than one million every minute. We have produced more plastic in the last ten years than in the whole of the last century.
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Sig · May 9, 2017

peilthetraveler said:
Those kids really should buy a water filter. They can buy a brita water filter with 10 filters at costco for about $50. It should last about 2 years.
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I've just gotta hope this is sarcasm? Let them eat cake!

peilthetraveler · May 9, 2017

Sig said:
I've just gotta hope this is sarcasm? Let them eat cake!
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I thought the part about them heading down to costco to buy it, made it obvious.

Sig · May 9, 2017

peilthetraveler said:
I thought the part about them heading down to costco to buy it, made it obvious.
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That's what tipped me off, but you never know on here!

Frederick Foresight · May 10, 2017

Sig said:
I've just gotta hope this is sarcasm? Let them eat cake!
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But how does "sarcasm" fit in the context of this thread? Who is he trying to subject to derision or irony? The unfortunate people who must drink the water, or the people who want to help them?

fordewind · May 10, 2017

traveler never traveled outside the costco

fordewind · May 10, 2017