You can help save the world from the plastics chokehold
Over the years, increased manufacture and use of disposable plastics has led to clogged sewage systems, a dirty environment and choking seas and oceans.
A fortnight ago, NatGeo (the National Geographic TV channel) was airing a documentary on how plastics are fast filling up our water bodies and snuffing out aquatic life.
In the documentary, thousands of desperate seals, penguins, walruses, octopuses and various types of fish could be seen struggling to untangle themselves from webs of plastics around their bodies—the majority without success. Some had succumbed and were rotting after being choked in the tight grip of unforgiving plastics. It hit me that the lives of the poor sea creatures would have been saved by the simple act of recycling.
