Mother Earth and Plastic Really Don't Go Together Do They?

Plastic bottles, toothbrushes, chip bags make up huge floating garbage site in Caribbean

Sometimes as individuals we feel overwhelmed when we see stories like this one and feel like we are just drops in the ocean when it comes to world problems like this.
And the irony here is you are right, because it's all the little drops in the ocean like us that have caused it in the first place, so it's drops in the ocean like us that have to work together to fix it.

Even our old paper money is plastic now ironically 

We have to vote with our plastic when making purchasing decisions about buying plastic:-)
A million bottles a minute: world's plastic binge 'as dangerous as climate change'

If we don't soon wake up to this plastic problem, then we could be in for some really dark nights on planet earth and I'm sure that mother won't be happy about that;-)

It's hard enough already to "just keep swimming" in this world without having plastic in our path, too.

Octopuses come ashore in dozens and crawl up New Quay beach in Wales
No wonder the octopussys are crawling onto the beaches this October.
Happy Halloween.