torsdag 20 januari 2011

Did anybody say environmental friendly plastics?

Along the South Pacific shores, you do not walk around in nice sand and clam shells not even in seaweed, dead fish or oil lumps? No, you wander about among lots of plastic bottles, and other plastic material that have been washed up on the shore.
The oceans are flooded with plastic debris. 50 000 pieces of plastic pieces on every square mile of the ocean! The marine food chain consume partially degraded but almost indestructible plastics. Every year, approximately 100 000 whales, dolphins and other marine mammals as well as one million birds die from the plastic that they eat. This according to the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP

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