Rubbish is rubbish

howies posted this 6th June 2009 12:22pm

 

Garbage: A girl stands on garbage on the beach in Haina in the Dominican Republic

These images from the Guardian website will really make you think twice about what you do with your rubbish. 

It takes at least 1,000 years for plastic to degrade.  In the UK we use, and discard, tonnes of plastic every year. 

You can’t go anywhere without seeing rubbish.  Our rivers, parks, wilderness areas and streets are all blighted by trash. 

This weeked why not head out with an old plastic bag to your local park or open space and spend fifteen minutes picking up rubbish.  Take a photo of what you collect and email (carnabyst@howies.co.uk) us.  We will then post the images on the blog.

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  1. Si Says:
    June 7th, 2009 at 8:41 am

    I hate seeing rubbish thrown on the ground and it makes me particularly angry when it’s in a beautiful place. I just can’t comprehend the mentality of somebody who just throws a drinks can or sweet wrapper on the ground on a beach, hillside or in a meadow. I’m getting a bit het up thinking about it now! Grrrrr!!!!

    My girlfriend thinks I’m bonkers, but whenever we’re out and about in the hills I’ll pick up any rubbish and put it in my rucksack to take home and recycle. I guess it depends how you look at the world – do you see yourself as a seperate entity that happens to exist on a planet called earth, or do you see yourself in relation to a greater whole? Is there the world, and you – or is it that you, me and all of humanity make up a part of what is defined as ‘the world’? If it’s the latter you can’t help think that by picking up litter, reycling, walking instead of driving and all the other little things you can do to help the environment, you are in fact doing good to yourself, as what you do to the world, you do to yourself.

    “A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Albert Einstein

  2. Chris Says:
    June 8th, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    If people want to do things like this on a more regular basis, they can join in with the Marine Conservation Society’s Adopt-a-Beach campaigns (loads all round the country):
    http://www.adoptabeach.org.uk/

    The UK Rivers Network also have a long list of about 200 or so community groups, many of whom organize regular river cleanups (and other hands-on activities too):
    http://www.ukrivers.net/network.html