A no carpet cleaning friend sent me this link.
plastic fibers in tap water
https://orbmedia.org/stories/Invisibles_plastics
Haven't heard from him in months.
Apparently we're ALL thinking about this problem more & more.
It's obviously not gonna go away on its own and that's the real problem.
So, just signed up for emails from this organization called 'orb'.
What a goofy name, but what a noble mission?
Answered honestly their survey questions.
Basically I'm an Idiot, answering 'No' to most of their questions.
How about you?
Thought provoking, disturbing, scary, feeling invaded, feeling helpless, feeling guilty.
How about you?
Then I look at the clothes I have on - ALL PLASTIC.
I think back on my past clothing, used to love Levis, now I don't even own a pair.
Used to love wool, now don't own a stitch.
Got away from it years ago reading how to dress for remote Alaskan fishing trips - would take my hard earned money and fly up there for long fishing trips - Learned to dress in layers, layers of plastics, polyesters, Polartec, etc
It's been a way of life for me all these last 30 years or so. Never gave it a moments thought until this article.
How about you?
Couldn't even finish studying the email my friend linked to me.
Makes me sick thinking how much I've contributed to this problem, really never even thinking about it before.
How about you?
I had to take a break from it after reading some of the quotes...
There are certain commons that connect us all to each other, air, water, soil, and what we have universally found time and time again is if you contaminate any of those commons, it gets in everything.
Tweet—Sherri A. Mason, PhD.
Chair, Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences
The State University of New York at Fredonia
Whenever you fractionalize a problem, as with the plastic industry not being held responsible for their particular types of waste, there's capacity for that industry then to blame another. So it's waste management; it's not the producer's fault. It's the sewage treatment people’s fault. It's not the actual clothing manufacturer's fault. It's the people who've got the washing machine’s fault. It's somebody else's fault. Generally speaking, it's all of our fault.
Tweet—Mark Browne, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of New South Wales
“Since the problem of plastic was created exclusively by human beings through our indifference, it can be solved by human beings by paying attention to it,” Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, told Orb. “Now what we need is a determination to get it done — before it gets us.”