Ocean pollution getting worse - Urgent need to cut plastic usage

BACK in the day when everyone had an Uncle Dan with a farm, Dan and his peers’ working lives were changed utterly by dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane — or DDT as it was called at the creamery teach-ins. For years, it was used as an insecticide with abandon. Then its dark, dangerous side was discovered. For decades, we used asbestos in buildings, but then its dark, unsustainable side was uncovered. For years, we drove diesel cars for economic reasons and because we

believed they were the best option for the environment. Then the emissions scandal broke and diesel cars sales seem in an irreversible decline.