Spanish celebs choose planet over plastic
Sunday, October 28, 2018 @ 11:38 PM
SHOCK reports in the global media about how plastic has been found in human poo – and every one of us eats it – have turned the tides for those who thought pollution was just a 'fish problem': at every meal, we munch our way through 100 pieces of microplastic, and these take 1,000 years to break down. So, if we don't pass it, we'll have to wait until the year 3018 for the plastic we ate in our last meal to vanish.
Yuk.
Already, a million marine birds and 100,000 sea mammals die every year because of plastic pollution, with up to 700 species being on the verge of extinction and 90% of those still alive thought to have plastic inside them.
Recent harrowing footage on the BBC showed a Shearwater feeding plastic to her chicks, mistaking it for food, leaving the babies so weighed down by the substance that they were unable to fly.
Sports and entertainment stars in Spain say no to plastic
Now, Spanish celebrities have enlisted for the war on plastic, and their Twitter campaign is going viral.
National Geographic España has called upon big names in the sports and arts worlds to answer the question, “Planet or plastic?” and 'put themselves in the shoes of sea turtles', by tweeting a photograph of them eating plastic.
They then have to 'nominate' their friends, ideally other celebs, to do likewise, citing the hashtag #YoElijoPlaneta ('I choose planet').
Read more at thinkSPAIN.com