Spring has sprung and we're all heading out for picnics, swims, sails - - so please leave the plastic at home! In fact, please learn to do without and encourage your local businesses, town councils, county boards and institutions to cut back, pick up and recycle.
The latest from the plastic dump formerly known as the Pacific Ocean:
Nearly two million Laysan albatrosses live here and researchers have come to the staggering conclusion that every single one contains some quantity of plastic.
Where is this? Midway Island, as reported in this BBC News story
I recommend you check out such earlier DailyKos diaries as this oneon the sargasso sea of polymer crud saturating swaths of the Pacific.
We created this mess, people - - our species - - and no other species, not dolphins, not albatross, not sharks, not ants, not tube worms, can clean it up.
That leaves you and me! Turn back the tide of polymer madness. Write your congresscritter. Join Greenpeace. Compel Euro-style corporate responsibility for the junk they churn out - and we buy.
Those albatross chicks will thank you!