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Our next scheduled event is our autumn “Street to Sea” litter clean May 19, 2024, which will clean the streets of Bridport, the riversides of the Brit and the beaches of West Bay. If you want to sign up get in touch with our Mayor on ianbark@icloud.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Plastic pollution is any plastic that ends up in the environment \u2013 from bottles and bags to less obvious sources like teabags and clothes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the past 100 years humans have produced (and used) a lot of plastic. It\u2019s cheap, strong, light and versatile, but all of it eventually ends up in the ground, in the air\u202f, and in the sea \u2013 which is where marine animals like albatross, dolphins and turtles ingest it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our plastic waste has invaded the highest mountains and deepest oceans. No one knows exactly how long it will take to disappear, but it\u2019s at least hundreds of years. Plastic breaks down, not to disappear, but often to be ingested by the smallest of creatures. Human beings now ingest thousands of plastic particles a year from drinking water, the air and from our food chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Friends of the Earth wants to create a plastic pollution action plan, to examine all the impacts of this useful but potentially deadly material.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Plastic free communities is a campaign to rid Bridport of as much single-use plastic as possible. Run by Surfers Against Sewage, it provides a set of instructions for a town to attain “plastic free” status. On August 11th Bridport achieved this having recruited 18 businesses to join in and 32 community allies. Our 18 Business … Continue reading “Plastic Free Bridport”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westdorsetfriendsoftheearth.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westdorsetfriendsoftheearth.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westdorsetfriendsoftheearth.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westdorsetfriendsoftheearth.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westdorsetfriendsoftheearth.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.westdorsetfriendsoftheearth.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/www.westdorsetfriendsoftheearth.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westdorsetfriendsoftheearth.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Newsletters:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Plastic Pollution: a general description<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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