Rethinking & Reducing my environmental footprint: Picking up #plastic on the Thames. Grounded in the belief that 21st century humans could do better
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1st clean in 2 months. #plastic #pollution in #Thames at #Rotherhithe #london. 137 bottles in 15 mins. I couldn't even get half the bottles let alone the thousands of other pieces. It truly is a crime. Who needs to be held to account? Who made this mess? Tag and tell – at London, England
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The current warming spike is unprecedented in at least two millennia. Who knew?
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”The level of ice loss revealed by the group matches the worst-case-scenario predictions outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)”
Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years. #FaceTheClimateEmergency
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tn.undp.org/content/tunisia/… Love your tuna? Overfishing of tuna, and poor waste management of sewage and household waste that flows directly into the seas destroys ecosystems. Without predators like whales tuna and turtles, jellyfish proliferate
Shark is not an essential part of a diet but is an essential part of marine ecosystems
Every year, the fishing industry coordinates an all-out assault on the Galapagos marine reserve, sending hundreds of ships to kill thousands of endangered sharks. This photo was taken inside the Chinese factory ship last year.
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We'll be litter picking + some other actions in North London parks this weekend. Get in touch to get involved!
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Demand-driven Consumer culture which drives waste, #pollution, #exploitation #plsticpollution #environmentaldestruction and #slavery. Let go of that useless £4 primark or £12 synthetic shirt and buy quality products that you love and that last
In total, when scaled up for all UK households, the equivalent to 184 million items of clothing have been earmarked for disposal or donation post-lockdown. Read more in our latest COVID19 clothing report bit.ly/37YuRWf @loveyourclothes
An inefficient system made worse by poor sorting of plastic recycling. We need to be careful what we put into our recycling bins, but really, we need to stop buying and using single use plastic. And that, is a consumption AND a production issue
British plastic recycling dumped and burned on Turkish roadside, BBC investigation finds
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Being half Turkish, this holds a special place in my heart. Turkey produces a lot of plastic pollution & is years being Europe in recycling, but it is also the worlds largest destination for plastic waste to be recycled. #plastic #pollution #2minbeachclean #turkey #Turkiye
İstanbul Boğazı'nda plastik atık kirliliğine dikkati çekmek için daldık. Yorumu size bırakıyorum!
We dived to draw attention to plastic waste pollution in the Bosphorus... #lifebelowwater #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #stopplasticpollution
Polystyrene packaging is the most common single bit of plastic I find in the thames
This is what I want to see. Remove plastics where possible. Where it is not possible reduce plastics and replace with biodegradable plastics. Show me the amount of plastic production averted, show me composting times, show me progress, Innovation and commitment to sustainability
Sausage maker shifts to compostable packaging foodmanufacture.co.uk/Articl…
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Hundreds of bits of plastic from the last #Thames #BeachClean in #SE16 #Rotherhithe. Tons of polystyrene packaging balls, and lots of commercial identifiable wrappers for junk food. Let’s play a game. Find something you recognise and tag a producer.
“There’s always @CocaCola “ mainly because they are the largest producer of single use plastics in the world.. 200,000 per minute. 50% recycled material by 2030 is too slow. Also... No, I don’t what plastic bottles. What a joke google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.c…
What are the benefits or drawbacks of shortening the food chain? Genuinely interested in your comments as I have been considering moving back to Italy and growing all my own food. Comment 👇🏼👇🏼
One positive is a lack of pesticide and chemical fertilisers which is good for environment but also good for me 😊
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"People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth"
#ActOnClimate #Ecocide #ClimateCrisis