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The scale and speed at which clothing is produced and consumed now has given us the term “fast fashion”. Collectively, the world’s population buys 400 per cent more clothes than we did 20 years ago. Their story is amazing too, so do check them out and help if you can.Around 100 billion items of clothing are delivered out of garment factories around the world every year. The Ocean Clean-up is a wondrous organisation working to clear the ocean of its plastic and has invented the tools to do so. Wash any synthetic clothing in this special bag which will stop tiny plastic fibres from reaching the sea. These have now been banned in the UK however, they are widely sold elsewhere, and you may still have them on your shelves. However, we also need action toward the microplastics poisoning sea life and making their way into our own diet.īuy nothing with microbeads. Large pieces of plastic can trap, strangle, choke and poison some of our favourite animals, such as dolphins and otters. While you’re here, sign this petition to get them to cut back.Īnd put pressure on our leaders to protect the 4 million square meters of ocean all around the world. Go for wood, glass, metal and natural materials wherever possible, and make sure whatever plastic products you have are recycled responsibly. I use a string bag as it crunches up small but holds a lot of shopping.Īvoid plastic furniture and other products. It’s perfect both for coffee and for water and the wide opening makes cleaning a doddle.Īlways remember to bring a reusable bag when you shop and look for produce that isn’t wrapped in plastic. What can you do right now?Īlways have a reusable cup with you. The world over, people are engaging with and responding to the issues raised in the programme, but there’s so much more we as individuals can do to help.

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Thankfully, Blue Planet seems to be that rare TV phenomenon which manages to cut through the fog of apathy and move people into action. The Blue Planet team collected every piece of plastic they came across while filming, but 8 million metric tons of plastic waste is being dumped into the oceans year after year – a figure equivalent to 634,000 London buses. The baby albatross’ parent fatally mistaking pieces of plastic for food.Īnd the unbearably sad images of a baby whale, poisoned by plastic pollution consumed through its mother’s milk, and its grieving mother carrying her dead baby for days before letting it go.īut these are just three stories out of millions which are happening right now.

The turtle struggling in vain as it drags a plastic net through the water.

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It’s hard not to be moved by the latest imagery in the latest extraordinary series of Blue Planet II: Surely, we have a responsibility to care for our blue planet.” – David Attenborough “Never have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet and never before have we had the power to do something about that.

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