It is a sight as common as fans sipping Pimm’s at Wimbledon; players take a freshly strung racket from their bag and remove the plastic from it, before giving it to a ball-boy or girl to dispose of. But if South Africa’s Kevin Anderson has his way, it is a sight that may not be seen for much longer.
At a time when the image of plastic in the oceans is becoming a global issue, removing the plastic wrappers from rackets might seem like a small step.
Making the electrons move to publish this has done more damage to the environment than anything anyone does to plastic racket covers at Wimbledon will save. Yes, even if they were to specifically and deliberately use each and every plastic racket cover to choke a whale.
Jeez, when will people start to gain a sense of proportion about this?
Making the electrons move to publish this has done more damage to the environment
Jeez, when will people start to gain a sense of proportion about this?
“Don’t use plastic straws or they kill sea life” seems to be the latest argument. Odd as I don’t throw mine in the sea, they go to landfill.
So where does it come from….?
https://www.dw.com/en/almost-all-plastic-in-the-ocean-comes-from-just-10-rivers/a-41581484
As our host often proposes, this will improve with development.
Cue Douglas Adams jokes about the Total Perspective Vortex.
West decides recycling plastic is good (it isn’t).
People separate and save their plastic in special bin. The bins are picked up and taken to a recycling (sic) center.
The gathered plastic is useless. So it is loaded up on ships and sent to Asia. Where it is burned or buried. Much gets away in the process, and winds up in the oceans.
Plastic in the ocean is the result of recycling plastic.
Solution: stop recycling plastic.
Leftard solution: stop using plastic.
Guardian rightthink: rail on the mundane, like
removing the plastic from a tennis racket. The grand spectacle of Wimbledon ruined by a plastic cover on a racket.
What about all them millions of decks of cards wrapped in plastic.
One o’them Texas Holdout tournaments could easily choke an entire pod of whales.
I’ll see your pod of whales and raise you enough dolphins to fill 10000 tins of tuna.
There isn’t an elephant in the room – because it’s a dragon. 90% of plastic arriving in the oceans comes from 10 rivers, 6 of which flow through China for all or part of their length.
BUT the left-wing media will never, never mention that China is responsible for more pollution than the rest of the world put together. All the noise about Donald Duck cutting back on pollution controls in the USA ignores how trivial his impact on the environment is compared to Xi Jing Ping.
“Jeez, when will people start to gain a sense of proportion about this?”
Since when did leftoid eco-freaks have a sense of proportion about anything?
@Gamecock, July 7, 2018 at 11:04 am
+1
https://principia-scientific.org/bbcs-david-attenborough-misleads-viewers-about-toxic-plastic/