A Plastic Ocean

A Plastic Ocean is a documentary that everyone should watch.  It's on Netflix and YouTube.  It is eye opening and informative.  AWAY is a place that plastic never goes.  It is everywhere.  It's in our air, water, landfills, homes, cars, and bodies.  Did you know that over 90% of humans have plastic in their urine?  Did you know that birds are starving to death with bellies stuffed with plastic?  Did you know that sea turtles eat our plastic bags in the water because they look so strikingly similar to jellyfish?  I had no idea and I bet most people don't either.  I used to think that the recycling can and trash can were magical portals to "away."  There is no "away."  It is always somewhere and I need to do better.  We need to do better.  The part about the birds really got to me.  It reduced me to a sob and I'm not one to cry about most anything.  Now when I feel it's easier to stick with the same products and habits, the image of the rotting bird with a colorful bunch of plastic where it's stomach once was comes to mind.