OLDEN WONDER from METRO

Here we are again!! 

more sad news about the plastic world! :( 

What a shocking thing to find rubbish of the 90s buried and still intact. Really, it is time to do something against this consumerism!! 

WE NEED TO ACT NOW!!

"TWO crisp packets estimated to be up to 50 years old have been found during a beach clean in Cornwall. Emily Stevenson, 22, co-founder of the Beach Guardian group, said after picking up the vintage Golden Wonder packets: ‘We could read every word. It was like they were made yesterday.

‘It shows how every single piece of plastic that everyone uses will still be here when our children have children — and probably even longer than that.’ In 24 hours, Emily walked 19 miles along 12 beaches and filled 21 rubbish sacks with 150 plastic bottles, 78 used wet wipes and 42 dog poo bags.‘The most unusual thing was a traffic cone wedged in a cave at Bedruthan Steps,’ she said.

As well as the crisp bags, she also found a wrapper for Opal Fruits. The sweets were renamed Starbursts in the 1990s."

Full article can be found at: https://www.metro.news/olden-wonder-1970s-bag-on-beach/1611330/

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

Hi again,

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.

Enjoy the reading and text me you thoughts.

"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

Hello All,

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!!!

Hope you will enjoy this short reading and I look forward to knowing your comments!!

"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/

WHAT'S HAPPENS TO YOUR COFFEE CAPSULES AFTER YOU HAVE DONE WITH THEM? from METRO

Have you ever wonder what's happening to the coffee capsules after we use them? How many of us recycle them?

Well, most of the coffee capsules are non-biodegradable because they are a mix of plastics and aluminium.

However, Nespresso is attempting to make a difference!!!

In London in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea they are running a trial:

Bags of used capsules are first sent to the recycling facility in Congleton, Cheshire. The pods are then shredded to separate the coffee grounds from the aluminium. The remaining coffee ground in the pods is recovered and used to make compost. The aluminum is then smelted and recycled into objects such as car spare parts, drink cans and bicycles. Aluminium protects not only the quality and taste of the coffee but has the benefit of being infinitely recyclable. A Nespresso capsule is primarily made of recyclable aluminium (88%). The other materials – including the filter, lacquer and silicon ring, represent a small fraction of the capsule. These are melted off, leaving pure aluminum which is re-melted and reused. Most of the capsule’s weight is coffee grounds.

This is such an unique procedure that Nespresso opened up their service, to allow customers around the country to be able to be more eco-friendly in their coffee consumption habits.

One of the leading reason for recycling aluminium is because it requires 20 times less energy than producing it.

I was really glad when i read the news and I am confident this example will be followed by many others!! 

Full article at: https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/06/what-happens-to-your-coffee-capsules-after-youre-done-with-them-7787063/

ECUADOR'S WAORANI FIGHTS FOR THE AMAZON

Finally good news for the Amazon!!

The Waorani protected hectars of Amazon from oil drilling.

In April 2019 there was a court trial that saved 32,300 square kilometers (12,500 square miles) of Amazon Rain Forest and indigenous land from oil drilling in the southeast of the Ecuador. Experts say the drilling could have lead to contamination of the forest due to oil leaks, spills, and waste dumping.

Luckily this did not happen!!

The full article can be found: https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/historic-win-by-ecuadors-waorani-could-re-shape-extraction-activities/

RAIN FOREST: Dispatches from Earth's most vital frontlines - Tony Juniper

RAIN FOREST

Dispatches from Earth's most vital frontlines 

Tony Juniper

A very interesting book that puts all together different issues we are facing in this century in regards to climate change. Hopefully, more and more people will start to worry about it and do something in regards. 

 

THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Hi! 

last week I download the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, read it and felt so passioned about it that I have decided to share it in my blog.


This document lists 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets were adopted on 25 September 2015 by Heads of State and Government at a special UN summit. The aim of this paper is to cancel poverty and focus on sustainable development for everyone in the whole world by 2030. 


It can be download in the below link:
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

Let me know what you think!















Further reading on the below link:

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sustainable-development/SDGs/index_en.htm
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/development-agenda/