Dr Jennifer Lavers gave me a plastic ziplock bag half full of plastic pollution yesterday.
I took this plastic bag of plastic pollution outside, I sat in my plastic garden chair and photographed it with my plastic phone.
As I sit here typing on my plastic keyboard, I try to count the items of plastic that I can see scattered about on my desk and I give up.
I throw my hands up in despair and sit staring blankly at my plastic computer screen and I wonder what to write.
What on earth can I say?
How can I get rid of this feeling of impending doom?
We are drowning in this stuff.
Our plastic pollution is choking the planet and I am as guilty as everyone else.
I have rolls and rolls of plastic bubble wrap in my studio that I use to wrap my pots. Never mind that it is recycled stuff that I was given, it is still plastic and I still use it.
So I will do what I always do, I will concentrate on something I can do. I will keep on talking about plastic pollution, I will try to limit my own plastic consumption and I will keep on posting photos of my work that I make in response to the Plastic Pollution Catastrophe. And I will ask that you keep on talking to me, that you hold my hand internet, so that I don’t end up rocking in the corner, overwhelmed by the scale of the problem.
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We certainly are drowning in it. I look around my home and there is plastic this, plastic that. I console myself with the thought that I reuse as much of it as I can and what I can’t reuse goes into the recycling bin, not into landfill.
Stop seeing plastic as problem, try to see it as an advantage…
Thanks, Kim. Because you told me about the plastic in exfoliating scrubs I only use natural ones, and usually make my own now with olive oil and sugar. I try to be plastic aware, but it is SO hard when we are, as you said, surrounded by it. It does become a little overwhelming. I appreciate your efforts to remind us of how important this subject is.
We used to make so many toys and things out of wood when I was young longgg ago. And I don’t know if this is true or not but it seems to me that the older plastic was different somehow, much heavier. Is it a different kind and more recyclable or even worse than what we have now?