Bottles, Bags and Micro-plastics

Image from journey to the plastic ocean

Tidal waves of jettisoned plastic

Overwhelm glorious golden sand.

Thoughtlessly discarded bottles

and single-trip bags

spawn a shameful, coastal wasteland.

Sinister flows of toxic outfall

ooze from here, to the ocean’s despair.

Fragments of micro-plastics 

swirl endlessly among fish,

who feed on this cynical harvest

entirely unaware.

 

In another yield from the deep,

bright crystals of table-salt

are likewise pervaded

which we then ingest. 

So might wisdom commend,  

a STOP PLASTICS approach?

Trevor Thorn © 2017

Written after reading Lucy Siegle’s Ethical Living Column ‘The Eco Guide to Microplastics', Observer 6th August 2017.

More information on this theme at
A Plastic Planet
Surfers Against Sewage
Journey To The Plastic Ocean