Sunday, September 14, 2008

Your Health: A Plastic OCEAN??

I was floored when I discovered this...please read entire article and share it with everyone you know.

I had no idea about this. It's way over-time that we all get our heads out of the sand and look what doing nothing but the same old, same old is doing to our lives.

Did you know?

  • Up to one trillion plastic bags are used worldwide EVERY YEAR!
  • Only 1 percent of plastic bags are recycled per year. The rest can persist in landfills for centuries.
  • More than 1 million birds along with more than 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die EVERY YEAR from getting tangled in or eating plastic.
  • Plastic doesn't biodegrade. That means, unless they've been incinerated — a noxious proposition — every plastic bag you've ever used in your entire life, still exists in some form, even fragmented bits. That includes all the bags for the newspapers on your doorstep and the many bags from grocery and retail stores.
  • EVEN WORSE...A swirling mass of plastic trash spanning an area twice the size of Texas (bigger than Vancouver Island) was discovered in the North Pacific subtropical gyre, located about 1,000 miles off the coast of California.

    This mass, including fragments of plastic bags, is estimated to have 6x more plastic than biomass, including plankton and jellyfish. "It's an endless stream of incessant plastic particles everywhere you look," says Dr. Marcus Eriksen, director of education and research for the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, which studies plastics in the marine environment. "
    Fifty or sixty years ago, there was no plastic out there.." READ FULL ARTICLE.

Let's all do our part as often as we can...adopt a healthy "reusable bag habit" and JUST SAY NO to single-use plastic bags and wraps.

Every little bit counts!

Sincerely,
Nada




Nada Adams is a Business Intuitive who brings razor sharp Clarity to empower clients in Maximizing Success & Fulfilling Goals with Peace and Balance.

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