HOW PLASTIC HAS DAMAGED THE WORLD

   Well where do we even start with the downsides? Plastic pollution is visible everywhere. We see it building up in the landfills, we see it in the shipping containers piled up high at docks around the world. We see it in the oceans. We hear about ‘the great pacific garbage patch’, a collection of rubbish in the North Pacific Ocean reported to be roughly three times the size of France for goodness sake! We see photos of animals choking on plastic and dead animals with stomachs filled with plastic. The visible damage plastic has done to the world around us is truly shocking, but it doesn’t even stop there.

See plastic never really goes away, it just breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces known as ‘microplastics’. These are tiny little pieces of plastic that we can’t even see and they are everywhere. Literally, everywhere. They’ve been found in the deepest parts of the oceans and on top of mountains. They’ve been found in our food and our water supplies around the world. They are even present in the very air we breathe. When we talk about a ‘plastic planet’, in today’s world, it is very much in a literal sense.