What a Waste

I was reading about Thailand’s efforts to reduce the use of plastic bags, and I noticed that the Guardian UK has a page just for plastic bag waste.

Guardian UK photos of plastic bag waste

Now, I feel sick seeing trees covered in a thin film of plastic bags.  Bags don’t stay in a landfill.  Through gradual diffusion, they are spreading out across the land and the sea.  We’re suffocating ourselves.

That it has to come to such a state before there is outcry all around the world is sad, but at least there is a building outcry now.  The Guardian has collected all of their waste stories from one page.

Who suffers waste? It’s tempting to say that we all do, but the world’s poor suffer disproportionately from the waste that is dumped around them.