Planet or Plastic?

In my Introduction post here on my blog I posted some disturbing photographs of marine animals being entangled in plastic waste, or in abandoned fishing nets. For me that is just one thing that goes right in to my heart. I just think of it as the turtle Crush in finding nemo (Flyt in Swedish) but behind the scenes after the movie, when his children are all grown up, and he’s alone and entangled in a fishing net, where he can’t get food or air, and eventually dies. National Geographic posted a really short video about how it feels to be an ocean animal stuck in a plastic bag...... It's 1,5 minute of your life. The ocean is huge, and us humans still haven’t explored it all. Yet, there are so much footage of marine life being stuck in plastics, or dead with their stomachs full of it. That just proves that this is a huge problem, for the people that don’t believe it yet, or who just don’t care. The biggest problem of animals being affected by plastic is usually not by acc...

When I wrote that the issue of plastic waste in the ocean is a problem that needs to be fixed by individuals, businesses and countries together, it’s all a circle. Let’s say if all businesses stop producing plastic, or let’s just talk about single-use plastic. Us as individuals would just have to adjust, because there is no supply anymore. But, this is not the case, a lot of businesses are trying to create solutions, but there is still a lot of single-use plastic available that us as individuals need to stop using. When that happens more and more businesses are forced to find a solution to keep the customers. The same goes for countries, which are basically large businesses. A lot of the plastic waste that is being directly dumped into the ocean and rivers are from areas in Asia, and then Africa and Latin America. The reason being is because of a less developed infrastructure and garbage waste system, than for example in North America, Europe, and Australia. The amount of people...