PLASTIC STRAWS, STIRRERS AND COTTON BUDS TO BE BANNED from Metro

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here below another dramatic article that describes the plastic pollution of our planet. I really believe that more needs to be done specially in terms of education and recycling.

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"PLASTIC straws, drink stirrers and cotton buds are to be banned in England from next year to tackle pollution.

Environment secretary Michael Gove confirmed the supply of the items will stop from April 2020 after ‘overwhelming’ public support for the measure.

Exemptions will allow those who need plastic straws for an illness or disability to buy them from pharmacies or request them in restaurants and pubs, and will let cotton buds be used for medical and scientific purposes.

More than 80 per cent of respondents in a public consultation backed a ban on plastic straws, 90 per cent wanted stirrers banned and 89 per cent supported getting rid of plastic cotton buds.

Mr Gove said: ‘Urgent and decisive action is needed to tackle plastic pollution and protect our environment.

‘Today I am taking action to turn the tide on plastic pollution, and ensure we leave our environment in a better state for future generations.’

It is estimated that 4.7billion plastic straws, 316million plastic stirrers and 1.8billion plastic-stemmed cotton buds are used each year in England. There are an estimated 150million tons of plastic in the world’s oceans, and each year 1million birds and more than 100,000 sea mammals die from eating and getting tangled in the waste"

Full article: https://www.metro.news/the-final-plastic-straws-stirrers-and-cotton-buds/1567621/

FAIRY LIQUID WASHES UP... ALMOST SIX DECADES LATER from Metro

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please find here below a shocking article I've found in Metro which clearly explains that plastic will never disappear from this planet unless we do something about it!!!

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"A BOTTLE of Fairy Liquid dating from the 1960s has been discovered during a beach clean.

The plastic washing up liquid container, which still displays the text ‘Fairy mild green liquid’, was picked up at Arbroath beach, Angus, by local primary school pupils in a beach clean-up.

Wendy Murray, who runs the East Haven Together cleaning group, found it as she sorted through the bags of litter.

She said: ‘I thought, this looks really old. I researched the graphics and realised it dated back to the 1960s. I was just shocked.’ She added: ‘Other people that took part were also shocked about the amount of rubbish. In total there were 123 bags.’ She said it included 2,000ft of fishing rope. 

Earlier, another Fairy Liquid bottle — this one at least 47 years old — washed up in Somerset.

Brean beach warden Dave Furber, who came across the container, said: ‘I’ve never seen anything this old washed up before. You can still clearly read that it says “4d off” on the front, so it must date back to before decimalisation in 1971. That makes the bottle over 47 years old which is remarkable.’

He added: ‘It shows how plastics are so slow to decay.’"

Full article: https://www.metro.news/fairy-liquid-washes-up-almost-six-decades-later/1567620/