Something has to change.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    Those beautiful tropical beaches, especially in poor areas, are covered in litter. Mostly plastic food wrap, and it’s so endless.

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      We do what we can, I have noticed in the last few years that our concentrated efforts in an area have been paying off. I’m seeing more marine life in the area and less litter each time.

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    Be the change. It’s not your trash or your fault but what’s stopping you from cleaning it? I pick up trash that’s not mine every day when I take my dog for a walk. Think globally, act locally.

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      We need a team for this beach, and/or drag tools to pull behind an atv. It would be near impossible to do this by hand. This is the southern end of the island where trash is coming from global sources. On the northern end where we stay, we dive and cut line from the reefs and remove bags of waste.

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    Not just our home, but our only possible home. Mars is the best alternative, and it would take hundreds of thousands of years to terraform.

    We live on Earth or we die.

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    What I don’t get is that this is somewhat easy to clean up using a rock picker attachment on a skidsteer.

    Yeah this one is coarse but a bit of chicken wire or fined sized mesh around it would work like a charm. That beach would be clean within a day.

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    Not counting the wood, I hauled more trash than that off a 26-mile kayak trip last weekend. And wood burns.

    Go for it OP! Set an example.

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      1 year ago

      Thank you for sharing that. I did notice coca-cola is a sponsor. They’re one of the largest plastic polluters in the world and a massive contributor to our current situation. Do you think that’s because they’re trying to make change, or trying to whitewash their responsibility?

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        1 year ago

        my take is white-washing. if they actually wanted to make a change, they could stop selling plastic bottles at any time.

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          Exactly, any massive corporation doing anything charitable is nearly always for the PR. If a company like Coca-Cola suddenly switched to all glass, even if it cost them profits, that would be incredible. If anyone running these corporations really cared about helping they would do more drastic things like that.