Cure the Plastic World

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Photo from www.happysimpleliving.com. 

I was in third year when I read about Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). According to the magazine, it is a floating mass commonly made up of plastic bottles, bags, spoons and forks and candy wrappers. Its size is so big that you have to multiply Texas by two. Yikes! It's not a material world but a plastic world, afterall.

One thing we can do to stop the growing size of the GPGP is to recycle the plastic litters. When I was at fifth grade, we made a bag out of plastic juice pouches. And when I was a freshman in high school, we made clutches, coin purse and bag out of different types of plastic and tarpaulin. That same school year, our Science teacher hosted a fashion show wherein the models wore dresses out of the same materials. And I really can't forget that I and my classmates actually picked those stuffs from the trash (I mean the real dirty trash).

Not using straws is actually good. Which is what actually my family practices when we eat in restaurants and in parties. Doing so can reduce plastic litters that might end up in the GPGP, the biggest dump in the world. It's a one-time-big-time type of thing. After using one straw, it'll end up in trash and how many do you think use straws all over the world in a day?

And next time, bring your own plastic bottles that will store water so you won't have to buy one. This may sound so old-fashioned (that's what my cousin called me after finding out that I still carry water bottles for refill) but the plastic bottles you buy every time you feel thirsty will still be present when you have kids of your own. This may sound so childish but will you exchange earth's conditions to your dirty, little secrets (a.k.a not disposing properly and not recycling)? 

Issues on recycling, nowadays, are so on mainstream. So hackneyed. But we need to do things like as simple as bringing our own water refills and not so into using straws. Tend to forget being earth-friendly? Think of those cute, little turtles (and Spongebob and Patrick and the Bikini Bottom) under the North Pacific waters.

Food or nah? Plastics confuse turtles for food. This might cause death on them. Photo from inhabitat.com