Micro Plastic And Garbage. What You Can Do To Protect Oceans And Wildlife

   Micro beads of plastic are used in a wide variety of household items, including many personal care items such as soaps, toothpastes, cosmetics, sunscreens, insect repellent, along with many household cleaning items. They are used because they are cheap for manufacturers, even though they are extremely costly for the world. Micro beads of plastic are not biodegradable, and do not get filtered out by water treatment and filtration plants. These plastic microbeads are already in the lakes and oceans of the world. They are virtually impossible to remove, and are eaten by fish and other marine life, moving their way up the food chain.
    Oceans are under assault from thousands of tons of plastics and styrofoam that enter into them daily. Food manufacturers and others are doing nothing to change how their items are packaged, knowing full well that in many countries, the lack of proper disposal systems guarantees that all these plastics and other oil based wrappers end up in the oceans. Cheap packaging for them is costly to the world.
    Little to nothing is being done to address the plastic contamination and poisoning of the oceans. The big money conservation organizations may have a token program here or there, but true to form, they are good at exploiting a problem for all the free publicity and money a problem may generate, while contributing nothing of substance.
     Stopping the use of micro plastics should be immediate. Polyethylene, polypropylene, and polystyrene are some of the names used in products for micro beads of plastic or beads made from petrochemicals.  Microplastics are unnecessary, and only add to the already huge, and almost completely unaddressed problem of plastics in the oceans. The magnitude of this problem cannot be understated. Daily the oceans are under massive assault from non biodegradable plastic trash and other non biodegradable waste. Kill the oceans and human life will perish.
     Meanwhile, for those concerned about the environment and helping the world rather than engaging in senseless violence, hate, religious wars and so forth....Instead of sending money to one of the useless conservation or animal organizations (many animal organizations have made fortunes exploiting animal cruelty and suffering), consider better alternatives. You can start your own small program anywhere in the world where plastics and other garbage are making their way into the waterways and oceans, and thereby do your own small part to clean up the mess. Hiring local people living in poverty provides employment, raises their awareness about helping the environment and wildlife, and is a concrete way to actually remove trash from the land, waterways and coastlines before it enters into the seas.