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As has been mentioned on this blog before ocean plastics are a real problem.\u00a0 Marine animals can be killed when they swallow them and by doing so chemicals in them enter the food chain.\u00a0 In at least one place in the Pacific there is a huge conglomeration of plastic.\u00a0 These chemicals are “gender benders” and can cause cancer and have other biological effects on sexual health. \u00a0 The main solutions up until now with ocean plastics are to try and reduce usage of plastic (plastic bag taxes) and collect them, although this latter solution is still at the experimental stage.\u00a0 As is the fact that at least some bacteria have been found that degrade some types of plastics.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However plastic use is set to soar over the next 20 years<\/a> and there could even be more plastics by weight than fish in the ocean by 2050.<\/p>\n

Now Proctor and Gamble have come up with the beginnings of a solution*.\u00a0 The company has found a way of recycling the plastic and is making a limited run of shampoo bottles (you know the brand name).\u00a0 Up until now one major problem with ocean plastics is that they have been exposed to UV light.\u00a0 This with the weather makes them degrade (at least into tiny ultimately microscopic pieces).\u00a0 The company have found a way around that problem.\u00a0 They have not found a way round around the other problem though.\u00a0 How to collect the waste.\u00a0 This is being doing by volunteers on beaches who then hand it over to a recycling company.<\/p>\n

This initiative is to be applauded, but it can only be regarded as a very partial solution to the problem.\u00a0 We need to use a lot less plastic and what we do use make sure it is properly recycled.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n

* there have been others who have used ocean plastics in limited ways before as the photo above implies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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