Plastic is responsible for some hideous deaths among sea animals and birds who mistake it for food but humans are also suffering the effects of this product.
Arguments go back and forth about banning things like plastic shopping bags but few governments or councils are adopting the measure.
In fact they are not the worst things manufactured from it.
Just about everything we buy these days is packaged in it.
This handy, cheap and easy to acquire substance is manufactured from oil.
It is a toxin that is in every part of the environment now and we are all subject to its poison.
Although it looks safe it is a natural product that has been altered by heat and chemicals into something completely foreign to nature.
It cannot be broken down and reabsorbed into the earth in its basic components.
It remains in the changed form and that is how it is absorbed into the body.
Poked down the throats of baby birds it fills the tummy with plastic junk that cannot be absorbed and which stops real food from being absorbed.
Hence the sea birds are not able to read their young in safety.
Fish and sea life are mistaking plastic for their normal food sources and are dying while some animals are trapped in plastic which hooks around their body and slowly strangles them.
Humans must wake up to the effect of plastic on the world and on us.
The animals we are killing are part of our survival and without them the essential resources we depend on will disappear.
This is happening already while the complacency about banning plastic continues to be a major problem.