It’s a Plastic Catastrophe

I like to think that I’m plastic conscious, but a glance through my house reveals an uncomfortable truth. I live a plastic life. Computer keyboard and mouse, cameras, shampoo bottles, toothpaste tubes, food containers, vacuum cleaner, electric plugs and cables, cat’s sand tray – all and a lot more are plastic.

Yes, there’s plastic and there’s single-use plastic but still, I don’t have a leg to stand on. As a plastic consumer, I’m partly responsible for the plastic catastrophe that grips our planet. I read that eight million tons of plastic ends up in the ocean each year. It’s even reached the deepest depths, as American explorer Victor Vescovo discovered earlier this year when he dived 11 kilometres in a pressurised submersible to the floor of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific.