A few days ago I made a post about the great pacific garbage patch. Now, many bloggers are writing to report that researchers have discovered a garbage patch in the middle of the Atlantic ocean as well. Since it is so hard to see from the surface of the water, no one was sure of the extent of the damage. I won't go into details on how the garbage patch was created since I covered that in my previous post. But I want to stress the importance of the garbage patches and further explain what we can do to prevent them from growing. It is a fact that we live in a consumerist nation, but there are still things we can do to save the environment. Most of the disposable items we use on a regular basis are made of non-biodegradable plastics. And so much of those plastics end up in our oceans killing fish and entering the food chain. Recently, I went to a fair and I was so pleased to see that one booth was selling dessert on pressed palm leaves (100% compostable). I bought some dessert from them and found that the plates were sturdy, clean, and made the dessert look more fancy than if it had been on a plastic plate. Doing stuff like using palm plates instead of plastic is the only way that the garbage patches are going to get smaller since no reliable way of cleaning the garbage patches up has been discovered. If everyone takes a second to think about what they are using, it may go a long way for the future of our world.
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