BYO containers: Single-use plastic bags
Dear Editor, Plastic pollutes our world gathering in ocean garbage patches with the largest: Great Pacific Patch, is twice the size of Texas. There are two other slightly smaller Pacific patches. Patches have 1.8 trillion floating plastic pieces, approximately 250 pieces per person; equivalence of a truckload of plastic dumped in the ocean each minute, gigantic monuments to today’s modern world. Dead beached whales, found with plastic in their stomachs causing their deaths have been found like: pregnant whale with 50 pounds of plastic; whale with 88 pounds of plastic; whale with 200 pounds of plastic. Global population is 7.8…