The reason for the heading is a story that was in the Guardian at the end of last week.
The EU is apparently planning to pay fishermen to catch PLASTIC....
There has been quite a lot on this blog about the links between plastic bottles, and the large ocean gyres that gather the waste into them as giant garbage patches.
As the article says:
Our seas are awash with plastic bottles, bags, nappies, discarded fishing nets, ropes and thousands of other bits and pieces – the flotsam of modern life. By 2008, the latest year for which I have a figure, 260m tonnes of plastics were made using 8% of global oil production in raw materials and energy. The curve of production over time bends upwards like a cliff face, increasing by 9% per year. The stark reality of this ever-steepening upward climb is that more plastic was made in the first 10 years of this century than all of the plastic ever created up to the year 2000.
This would make an excellent discussion stimulus, related to issues such as environmental awareness and sustainability.
Image by Alan Parkinson
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