Published in the Portsmouth News on 18th April 2018
The BBC series Blue Planet inspired a surge of interest in reducing the use and disposal of plastic straws and coffee cups.
It is a small but symbolic step towards cleaning up our planet.
Most people will have heard of the three Rs, namely, reduce, reuse and recycle.
Some enthusiasts have added two more and these are – repair and refuse.
Back in 1950 the then world population of about two billion produced 1.5 million tons of plastic.
Now, with seven billion on the planet, the figure is around 320 tons.
Around our coastline, up to 5,000 pieces of marine plastic have been found per mile of beach.
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