Wednesday 9 May 2018

The Silvery Tay and the Silvery Wrapped Plastic Fields...

If there's an issue that's a health issue as well as an environmental one that's got to be plastic. There's been a lot of discussion recently about the alarming amount of plastic in our oceans, from the large scale of the giant island of waste in the North Pacific to the small scale of the fibres and particles that end up in fish. A study found that Inuit women who eat a high proportion of fish and animal fat in their diet may pass enough PCB etc to cause liver and skin problems through their breast milk to their babies in just a year.

The silvery Tay and the plastic you don't often see: the silvery plastic wrapped fields...