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It’s time to get drastic
on plastic
Our planet and its wildlife are paying the price
e all know that plastic is a huge Julian Kirby, plastic campaigner scourge. It’s well-founded concern.
issue — we’ve seen reports at Friends of the Earth According to the UK government, one
Won the news and heard about million birds and over 100,000 sea
it from campaigners. But it’s about time The heart-wrenching images of marine mammals die from eating and getting
that we started making a bigger dent in wildlife tangled in plastic shocked the tangled in plastic waste every year. And,
the problem, and took action to make nation when Blue Planet 2 hit the screens on top of this, an estimated 12 million
our hometowns plastic-free. Friends of in November 2018. Waves of public tonnes of plastic end up in the sea
the Earth chat to us about why it’s so anger switly followed, along with calls annually, weighing the same as around
important, and what we can do to help. for tougher action to tackle the plastic 60,000 fully-grown blue whales. As well ›
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