I wanted to take a few minutes to write about a few things that have been on my mind lately (always); animal welfare, supporting local agriculture, and waste management.
I wanted to take a few minutes to write about a few things that have been on my mind lately (always); animal welfare, supporting local agriculture, and waste management.
As we enter the New Year, consider gathering your friends and family once a month and head to a local roadway, park, beach, or neighborhood and host a litter cleanup. Let’s put boots on the ground and be stewards of our environment.
We’ve got to talk trash. Each year, the amount of litter on our roadsides continues to increase. Unless it’s cleaned up, there’s a pretty decent chance that the debris is going to make it’s way into a nearby storm drain and ultimately, enter our waterways.
The pandemic has introduced a serious increase of single-use face masks, rubber gloves, face shields, takeout containers, alcohol bottles, shipping packaging, plastic bags, cleaning wipes, and other items into our local environment.
Have you ever thought about where exactly all that storm water runoff goes? Long story short, all that runoff ends up in our local streams, rivers, and eventually, the ocean— and it isn’t filtered or treated in any way.
Did you know it’s estimated that 90% of all seabirds have swallowed plastic? This statistic overwhelms me to no end. It’s not entirely shocking either given the fact that 8 million tons of plastic enter our oceans each year.
