Every time, buying something in the store, we remind ourselves that it's time to give up one-time packages in favor of paper. But can not today? It's so convenient! Or start from next month?
True, a familiar situation? Yes there - we all know about the terrible situation with environmental pollution due to plastic and even almost feel remorse when once again we throw into the urn a bottle of sweet water or a polyethylene bag, but ...
But in fact - the scale of this environmental catastrophe now shock you and wound you in the heart! "National Geographic" magazine for 130 years has documented the history of our planet, showing viewers and readers the fascinating beauty of the planet and the threats that it faces. And in his new issue he collected heartbreaking footage, after which you will surely feel guilty!
Very symbolic ...
Yes, we know that every year we leave behind 9 million tons of plastic waste. And this stork, not without our help, was in a death trap from a plastic bag!
By the way, most of the "plastic" garbage is packaging. And it is not processed and not burned!
And in this frame there is not a drop of a photoshop!
You will never guess that this is a picture of a fountain jammed from plastic bottles in the center of Madrid! Impressive?
All that this tortoise could do was to stretch the neck over the water for inspiration. This is the kind of photographer she saw and helped her get out of the plastic mesh!
The hermit crab is stuck in a lid from a plastic bottle on the island of Okinawa, Japan ...
To stay on during the current, sea horses like to grasp the drifting algae. Well, I had to use a wand to clean my ears!
Did you know that every minute in the world sells almost a million plastic bottles of soda water?
Some animals now live in a "plastic world" - they listen to garbage trucks and find most of the food in the garbage!
Pain in every frame ...
You will not believe, but at the moment there are about 700 species of marine animals that have already eaten or become entangled in plastic!
And by the end of 2050 almost every kind of sea birds on the planet will use plastic ... by mistake!
It is difficult to realize this, but out of 6.9 billion tons of plastic waste in 2015, only 9% have been recycled, 12% have been burned, and 79% left to accumulate on landfills!
Dawn on the outskirts of Mumbai, India ...
These transparent plastic bags were washed and dried on the river Buriganga (Dhaka, Bangladesh). But in fact, the recycling of them goes less than one-fifth!
"Colored chips" made of plastic are collected, washed, dried and manually sorted!
And this is how the largest processing plant in San Francisco looks like. For a day it takes about 500-600 tons of "plastic" rubbish!
Trucks full of plastic bottles, rush to the processing plant in Valenzuela, Philippines ...
China is the largest producer of plastics - it accounts for more than a quarter of the world's total, most of which is exported all over the world!
Well, is it time to make an informed choice?