Watching the second episode of "The War Between the Land and the Sea" brought home just how much pollution has been dumped in rivers and in the sea, especially plastic. Long term plastic can be eco-friendly, if it can be used over a long period of time, and disposed of properly. Plastic can be recycled and used again. But a lot of plastic is short term, throwaway - just go to your supermarket and see. Bits of netting can be seen on beaches in Jersey. And microplastics, too small to see, can be in the sea, evaporated into clouds and airborne, and enter the food chain, ending up in living creatures - including us.
Troubled Waters
There is plastic, plastic, everywhere
Micro molecules born on the wind
Floating in the water, flying in air
Eighth way mankind has sinned
It is the rivers, lakes and seas
Killing fish, strangling sea life
A road to hell by slow degrees
Land and sea are locked in strife
Within our blood, floating there
The plastic creeping to each cell
We do not know, but surely fear
The invasion by this plastic hell
Troubled waters, running deep
Nightmares to disturb our sleep
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