Transatlantic rower James Cracknell claims we are dead as a planet if something isn’t done to stop plastic littering into our oceans and seas.

This former Olympian said, “The plastic isn’t in the form of huge bottles. It gets ground down into such small pellets, and the birds and the fish eat them and consume them in their bodies and you cut them open and they’re full of them.”
Coca-Cola recently announced that it will be backing a deposit scheme to help it meet target numbers in their recycling ventures.
Cracknell later stated,” Norway has a deposit scheme for plastic…resulted in over ninety percent of their plastics being recycled…that’s what we need, to have that policy in our households- that actually, yes as an individual I can make a difference.”

Key Takeaways:

• The plastic in the sea can get into the fish, and if we are eating those fish, that can be very dangerous.
• Norway has a more efficient method of getting the majority of their plastic recycled, and we could definitely implement that in America.
• The plastic problem needs to be stressed to people and kept up with, and then if we appreciate the gravity of it we may be able to fix it.

“Three quarters of the world is ocean, and if we don’t look after them, we are dead as a planet.”

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