Plastic removal is now their big campaign and we continue to support them. The plastic pollution has become a huge environmental and conservation problem. Recently highlighted by David Attenborough in Blue Planet 2 it seemed like the plastic pollution suddenly became big news. It feels like we replaced one type of sea pollution with another.
Everyday at approximately 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into the oceans and there are approximately 5000 items of plastic pollution per mile of UK beaches. A plastic bottle takes about 450 years to break down and then it becomes microscopic but never disappears completely.
Nurdles are small plastic pellets about the size of a lentil and billions are produced to make plastic every year. They seep into the rivers, seas and oceans at an astonishing rate through mishandling and spillage. They are so small they go unnoticed and damage our delicate microsystems. They are mistakenly eaten by fish, birds and mammals.
It is now well documented that larger plastic pollution is also eaten by our wildlife, traps them and often causes slow death.
Whilst on holiday in Devon I was pleased to find very little large plastic waste on the beaches but I'm sure the nurdles were lurking, unseen. I wondered how the nurdles and the tiny microscopic pieces of plastic affected the rock pools and what unseen damage was happening,
Sketchbook Pages From Devon:
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Design Exercises
I found this really useful and a different way to look at design and it made me think carefully about ways to interpret the words.
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I then used coloured papers [See Chapter 9] Adding colour always gives a new perspective!
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