Too late, there’s no escaping plastic


THE news just gets worse and worse. Already we are not in a good place with tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, global boiling (which has replaced the previous term “warming”) and climate change, diminishing resources, nasty politicking coupled with greed and corruption everywhere, and social and economic upheavals – the list seems endless.

As if that’s not bad enough, evidence is piling up that we are truly and unavoidably breathing in and ingesting plastic. We have long known of the growing plastic menace and Aunty here has written on the topic eight times over the last 10 years.

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