Microplastics!

[Henhouse Harlot]

“Where there is life, there is hope.” I believe that I got this quote from James Herriot, although I’m not 100% certain. Every time we have a sick or injured animal on our farm, I remind myself, and my son, of this. We absolutely can make a difference with the things that we buy! I buy 2nd hand clothes and shoes whenever possible. Poshmark and Ebay are good places to find things if you can’t find them locally. Pick up trash! It may not be your trash, but it is your planet. The more people who are actively working towards a cleaner, healthier future, the better our chances are. My heart goes out to every single person here, who has been harmed by greedy corporate interests polluting and poisoning our world. There is still hope,

 

[CapricornFarm]

My Mom used to take a bag with her on daily walks. She picked up other people's trash as she walked. Then she didn't have to keep looking at it.

 

[Chicken_Obsesser]

I saw some people picking up trash off the interstate the other day.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I saw some people picking up trash off the interstate the other day.

If less people threw it out and more people picked it up, we would make progress!
Went I go rock collecting, I also pick up broken glass and other junk.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I have a cat who loves to eat plastic! Of course, then he throws up. Never learns!

 

[Sally PB]

Our next door neighbors are blind. They cannot see the trash that is in their yard, on their porch. The kids go outside with a plastic juice carton, drink the juice, set the carton down, leave it. It tumbles down the hill, blows onto our property.

I picked up a loose chicken feed bag that blew over here and put it next to their wood pile. (And "pile" it is; they get it delivered and it's just dumped, never stacked.) I put a log on it to hold it down. Did it disappear? Nope.

So now when I see a plastic bag or other bit of trash that they have set free to roam, I stuff it in that bag.

 

[CapricornFarm]

It seems like people are just not interested in cleaning up the environment, even though it can effect their health!

 

[BDutch]

The plastic rubbish is not the main problem for the health of everything that lives on the earth. The microplastics we don’t see who are worse.

Microplastics are in the waste water of the factories that produce plastics. PVC/vinyl is a lot worse for the environment than the ordinary plastics. And even more the factories that produce forever chemical plastics and sprays with Fluoride ( PFAS ). Like coatings, fire extinguishers, Tefal, chain oil, gliding and waterproof sprays, water resistant foils, waterproof cream against sunburn.

Burning waste spread the PFAS chemicals through the air. It lands on the soil a few kilometres further away and gets eaten by all living creatures.

There are agricultural poisons that contain PFAS who are widely used in farming as insecticide/pesticide. We are breathing, eating and drinking it every day. Smearing it on our faces and body’s in creams.

A few weeks ago it was in the news that about 50% of the eggs from backyard chickens in my country have PFAS levels that are too high according to the EU health advisory. Yesterday they told us the ordinary wines contain to much of these PFAS chemicals too. Only the organic wines are okay bc the don’t use these poisons on the grape vines.