This 10-year old sperm whale, found washed up on a beach in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland this past weekend, had an astounding 220 lbs of trash (plastic cups, netting, ropes, etc.) in its stomach.
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This is very sad.
I know. All the irresponsible things we do don’t just impact people, they impact so many magnificent creatures, ruining their natural habitats.
Yeah it’s like we think we can do anything to anyone who doesn’t have a “voice.”
You nailed it, Kathy. Both the multitudes of people without a voice and pretty well all of nature! 😥
Oh, how utterly depressing.
Totally. You have summed it up nicely, I’m sad to say.
We must do something to stop this.
So, so true. Yet there’s precious little impetus to change. 😥
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Thanks for the share it is heartbreaking to see this, I am sure majority of people have no idea and live in complete oblivion.
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Plastic has to go too much plastic. We can put our shopping in our bags. Can drink from a glass not a plastic straw. Intelligent life is being destroyed, life which is vital for our Earth. Take your rubbish home and burn it if you can or take it somewhere you can burn.
How do we get people, govts, and corporations to seriously buy into these changes. It’s good that it’s being talked about now. The next step is to seriously walk the talk.
It is, walk our talk. I live in Egypt and they are filthy people. They believe it is govt fault for not provided refuse colloection. I burn my rubbish what stops them from doing the same nothing. They defile the land and Mother Earth in their behaviour. Plastic bags are widely used one reason is to stop people looking at what they have bought. The culture and thinking of the people is not good. The women also throw filthy water and waste from the homes into the streets which attracts vermin, flies, mosquitoes, ants etc. I tell them they are dirty but you cannot do anything with these women. We have to keep hitting hard with posts to make people care about what they do.
And to make people care enough so that they pressure their govt to be involved by providing bins, pickups, and raising social expectations. Having everyone burn their garbage in populated areas probably isn’t the best solution.
Burning perhaps isn’t good but better than having vermin which spreads diseases.
Heartbreaking, maddening and cruel!! People don’t think and plastic has got to go!!
We really don’t think about it, do we? It’s out of sight, out of mind. And we’ve just recently come to learn that all the plastic we carefully put out for recycling is rarely recycled close to home at all. It’s “cheaper” to ship it across the ocean to be sorted or trashed in some very poor country by very poor people. And we didn’t even know. We humans can really screw things up sometimes!