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RE: A study of mesopelagic fish found that 73 % of them had plastic in their gut!
After first reading this post, the word that came to mind was "disheartening". However, I quickly got to what can we do about it? How can we prevent this altogether? I think a greater focus on incentivizing the recycling of all plastics, specially in regions with the greatest plastic footprint could substantially improve this form of pollution. Thank you for sharing this fantastic post and bringing light to this crucial topic.
I agree with you, and I think education the polluters and incentivize them to recycle is a very good start. As you might imagine, most of the plastic pollution comes from poorer countries where they have less education about the dangers of polluting. So we can probably reach pretty far just by education alone.
I agree with you in stating "we can probably reach pretty far by education alone". Teaching the generations to come the importance of being aware of the effects our actions have on the environment will be monumental in creating actual change.
Yeah, exactly. It should be mandatory to cover a lot of the problems with pollution in school in my opinion :) It would do a lot of good!
Absolutely! Specially considering teaching kids to have a greater proactive role in environmental issues such as this will only empower them;0)