Imagine a beach free of litter
Imagine, just quickly,
A beach free of litter,
A sea, clean and sparkly alive,
Let’s make it happen
Yes we can do it
We must if we’re going to survive.
These words were written on the window of an ethical fashion shop in Brighton, The Fair Shop, on the road leading down to the seafront from Brighton Station.
On the seafront, disgusting fish n chip shops serving their disgusting fish n chips on polystyrene plates or in polystyrene burger-style boxes.
Iydea in North Laine in Brighton, which for more than a decade has led the way on recycling, a fruit juice served with a plastic straw.
Note: Or so I thought, but a few days later I was in an Indonesian restaurant and what appeared to be the same green straws, only they were not platic, they were biodegradable.
Salty Fig a bar overlooking Fig Tree Bay serving overpriced drinks in plastic.
Plastic served overlooking the sea finds its way into the sea.
Walk in a supermarket, plastic surrounds everything, podded peas in a plastic box, potatoes and bananas in plastic bags, a coconut with shell hacked off shrink-wrapped in plastic.
As always it is the indie coffee shops leading the way, serving takeaway coffee in compostable cups, KeepCup or similar reusable cups on sale, a discount if used.
We must eliminate the takeaway coffee culture, encourage relax in an indie coffee shop with speciality coffee served in glass or ceramic.
Water is a human right.
The coffee shops in Athens bring without asking ice cold water to the table or failing that water from which to help oneself.
A Drop In the Ocean, from March to October 2018, plastic bottle tops are to be collected from Brighton seafront to illustrate the amount of plastic finding its way into our oceans.
Plastic bottle tops are among the top five most deadly ocean trash items.
Marine mammals, birds and fish see plastic bottle caps as food, which can lead to ingestion and potentially fatal consequences.
Plastic bottle tops float and take a long time to degrade. They are small enough to be swallowed whole by birds and animals. Every bottle top collected is a bottle top that won’t be eaten by a turtle, swallowed by a seabird, or settle as microplastic particles inside a mussel.
