The oceans throw back our, er, offerings

Conservation talk these days seems to centre on how we are ruining the sea with our rubbish. Plastics gets the lion's share of the blame, though we flush lots

else that we don't want into the briny.

America's NOAA National Ocean Service warns us that plastic can stick around indefinitely, wreaking havoc on marine ecosystems.

PROBLEM

Some plastics float once they enter the ocean, though not all do.

The problem, as I interpret it, is that oceans can't help themselves, can't get rid of the plastics, nor the billions of bucketloads of, er, discharge from the 7.52 billion of our species.

Thankfully, humans have woken up to the environmental danger.

Our species is doing something about it.

Well, they are talking about it and talking about doing something about it.

Of course, some organisations are involved in the ocean clean up right now, as an encouraging article here shows.

However, what a surprise, what a delight, to see the South Atlantic itself doing something about it.
Continues on the blogs for my ocean adventuring book, Sailing to Purgatory, at
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