Encouraging people to rethink scale and consequences of plastic pollution.
How worried should we really be?
Throw your plastic in the recycling bin and you’re done. That plastic somehow magically disappears and is handled by somebody somewhere, somehow… If it’s recycling bin than I suppose it must be recycled. Even if it’s not recycled it’s in the landfill somewhere covered with a lot of soil so the problem is no more.
Maybe there are some bottles in the sea, but those really don’t affect me in any considerable way. Maybe it might look a bit dirty, but it’s just that — a bit dirty.
Well, you could not be more wrong.
Although plastic itself is not toxic many of the side compounds used in plastic item production are. Most plastic products contain toxic cocktail of carcinogenic chemicals. Once plastic item ends up in our environment it starts dissipating those toxic chemicals which easily find their way into our food and consequently into our bodies.
The presence of microplastic in foodstuffs could potentially increase direct exposure of plastic-associated chemicals to humans and may present an attributable risk to human health.
Plastic is poisoning our environment on a rapid scale. If we do not change something by 2050 there will be more plastic in the seas then fish.
BlockClean is the platform which has set it’s goals in changing all that by providing a new paradigm in the way people are motivated to reduce, reuse or recycle the plastic they consume.
In next part we’ll take a look a high-level look at the BlockClean global initiative against plastic pollution.
