Where the Plastic Ethos Meets Up with Reality
As a person fortunate enough to live and work in a place where my front yard is a marina and my back yard the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, a part of just about every day involves plucking litter–mostly plastic based things doing demonstrable harm to oceans and wildlife. On Monday mornings during the summer, my beach often resembles a movie theater when the lights come up —the ground covered in discarded cups, bags, trash, and containers. Those of us on the coast see the urgent threats this poses to our ecosystem. And most of us can agree there is no solution to this problem that does not involve substantial changes in our behavior and practices when it comes to plastics.
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