In just 10 years, the Isle of Man has rid its beaches of plastic and earned Unesco status as a world leader in ocean protection. So how did it do it?Standing on a windswept beach on the north-west coast of the Isle of Man, Bill Dale looked out on to plastic bottles, cartons and packaging forming a thick carpet covering the shingle. It was 2007, the global plastic binge was already well under way, but the millions of tonnes of waste seeping into the oceans as a consequence had not reached the public consciousness."I was with a friend and we thought, 'Let's just clean up this one beach.' We had no idea then of the scale of the problem." Continue reading...
A sea change: how one small island showed us how to save our oceans
23. října 2018 12:30
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/23/a-sea-change-how-one-small-island-showed-us-how-to-save-our-oceans
Zdroj: The Guardian