I'm very concerned about all plastics in the environment, which means I approve all moves to reject plastic bags and to halt the manufacture of single use plastics. Even if we have plastic recycling facilities, we are still creating more plastic items that will eventually reach the end of their life and be discarded. Our seas are in real peril - not simply from pollution of many kinds and discarded plastic (a lot of it slung overboard from cruise liners and other commercial vessels) but also from over fishing. It's been predicted that at the rate we are currently removing fish and crustaceans from the oceans, the marine environment will effectively be dead by 2050. This will be a total disaster for planet earth. Along with the rainforests, the world's oceans are crucial for sustaining life here. I don't even know why so many people are still eating fish at all, to be honest, it's not even a health food now, with all the toxins in it and - apparently - a lot of tiny bits of plastic too - and obviously the appetite for fish is what is driving the over-exploitation of the oceans. The saddest thing of all, to me, is 'bycatch' - which are the tiny fish that would, if left alone, grow into large fish, able to spawn. Instead they are either thrown back - dead - or used, ground up, to feed farmed prawns or - even worse - animals in factory farms whose natural diet should be grass and wild plants. I'm extremely concerned about this, and many other environmental issues - what sort of world is my baby granddaughter going to inherit?
