Our sea is increasingly reduced to a garbage dump

Every year, 230 tons of waste end up in the Mediterranean. By 2040, that number will double. And we're the ones responsible.

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SEAS POLLUTED BY PLASTIC

Sea garbage dump

A can of Pepsi Cola printed on the claw of a lobster. The Seahorse with the built-in cotton swab. The sea ​​turtle entangled in a plastic net. What else are we to see, as images of horror and waste of nature Seen from the sea, to realize how low we've fallen? An entire island in the South Pacific, where waste, primarily plastic, covers 98 percent of the surface, isn't enough. We console ourselves by thinking that at least it's uninhabited. Isn't it enough to know, through scientific investigations and not through the alarmism of some overly orthodox environmentalist, that 90 percent of seabirds eat plastic. And never mind if it dies. How does the news that a cosmetic bottle contains up to 750 microplastics enter and exit our ears? The same ones we then find in soaps, in toothpastes, in the gel. And then into the sea, into the largest garbage dump in the globalized world. Every year, 230 tons of waste end up in our waters, those of the Mediterranean (6 percent of which are deadly microplastics), and by 2040, that figure will double. According to Legambiente, the amount of litter on Italian beaches is 705 pieces for every 100 meters of coastline: at the European level, the maximum figure should be less than 20.

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(Credits: Francis Pérez – World Press Photo 2017)

We at Non sprecare have never liked environmental catastrophism.We consider it counterproductive. But these images, this data, which arrive like stabs and a moment later disappear from our radar, like the most banal pornographic photo, these truths, in short, are already a catastrophe. And we almost feel like ignoring them, choosing deathly silence as an extreme form of civil protest. But we are stubborn, we are always guided by the optimism of the will, and so let's try once again to ask ourselves and you the same key question, regarding the philosophy of Non-Waste and its lifestyles: "What can we do?». Every single day, without always asking others, for example dwarf politicians, to take the initiative.

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(Credits: Sewage surfer © Justin Hofman – Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017)

Seahorse with cotton swabs

Before and after this pressure as public opinion, we must return to our home habits, our lifestyles, our daily behaviors. If a lobster is stamped with a Pepsi can and a seahorse is trapped in a cotton swab, then it means that we are the killers, not politics in a vague and empty sense. It is we, men and women, children and the elderly, educated and ignorant, rich and poor, who contribute to accumulating those waste that are counted in the sea waters and on the beachesUs. With our bad habits, which we can change quickly. Just think of how much we waste, including our health and life, with a cotton swab, a bottle of mineral water, or a tube of toothpaste abandoned in the most inappropriate place imaginable.

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