I hope in the future people will not be worried about food security. Because human is at the highest tropic level at present, every polluted item in fish, chicken, or beef, would finally move into the human’s body. In the ocean, many fishes eat plastic bags, and finally, these plastic particles enter the human body. So even though plastic bags are very convenient and cheap stuff in modern society, and are useful in daily life, people should consider whether can we control the final destination of these plastic bags. Protecting the environment of all animals is protecting humans ourselves. There is also some wastewater emission from industry polluting the ocean security, the waste released to the ocean just because it is convenient without cost, the government should make laws to control, and everyone should aware of this.
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Hey S, I think that unfourtunaley we are quite egocentric beings and the idea of emphasizing the effects these small daily decisions we make may ultimatley have on ourselves may be a great way to reach out to others that may care less or indifferently to the issue.
Hi S, you brought up some great points here! I agree about your point on controlling the final destination of plastic bags. The best way to prevent biomagnification is to cut off the source before it can make its way into the food chain, and this responsibility falls on us as humans to be mindful of where these plastics end up; if they end up in the ocean, biomagnification will likely occur!
Hey there, S!
I hear you and feel your pain, especially about turtles ingesting plastic mistaking it for jellyfish.
At first, I thought plastic bags were useful as absolute refuse containment liners - a consideration or rather "garbage etiquette" for helping to make the jobs of our sanition workers and garbage hauling workers less onerous and odiferous. The plastic garbage bags we got from the store were frequently made of recycled plastics and were designed to fit in standard garbage waste bins. But since I stopped using plastic bags because of the plastic bag ban in Vancouver, BC, I haven't missed them at all! In fact, we used to spend too much time folding them up for compact storage! Except for the very rarely full, too often too long time to fill up, the rare plastic bag I do possess is still used as a garbage can liner. It's remarkable how the plastic bag ban has simplified my life! I haven't missed or lacked the rare plastic bag needed for garbage liners since the ban on plastic bags began! Good riddance, I say!
Now, if we can only universalize those great inventions: the paper take out coffee cup lids - that we once saw at some coffee shoppes decked in red and white and brown! What da? Where'd they go? Why are they not in our supply chain universally? This is a boon for our ecosystems' health and wellness! Let's ask all coffee shops to unanimously stop using plastic lids for take out coffee in paper cups! Better yet, make each coffee cost a minimum of $.25 less for those of us who bring our own cups and containers!
As for the wastewater pollution of dioxins and such in "old school" wood pulp paper making processes, there are "superbugs" freely employed to "eat up dioxins" that live quite happy fat lives in big vats situated at our local wood pulp mill in Snuneymuxw.....I have worked in this mill for 4 consecutive summers and I can assure you that the management was very proactive in exceeding ISO expectations for environmental standards issued by intergov't environmental experts, especially in terms of exceeding labour wage standards and employment and safety standards for a mill that operates 24/7 365
This is a great post!!
Being an international student here really sucks because everything is 5x more costly in Canada than in my hometown...and I always wonder why healthy foods like protein and salads are more expensive than unhealthy foods like pizza and ice cream. This is such a good post!
That's so true! By protecting our animals, this is also protecting us! Using resuseable bags instead of purchasing plastic bags can help our animals, using resuseable straws instead of buying those plastic boba straw are some things that we can do.
I also hope for food security because I do have some worries about eating certain foods, especially larger fish because they're ingesting contaminants such as plastic.