Thursday 7 January 2016

Barbara Cartland Bay?


News that thousands of pink plastic bottles, apparently full of stain remover, have washed up on Cornish beaches is disconcerting (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-35241869). Not only are the pink plastic containers very slow to degrade but the contents of the bottles could have a devastating effect on marine life. And we used to think that only mass oil release was a serious problem!

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