Tap Water to the Rescue
Environmental campaigners insist on change to be made as the endangerment of our planet grows more severe, specifically, changing our water habits.
Surfer’s Against Sewage, a campaigning group of professional surfers who strive to clear as much plastic from the ocean as possible, are calling for governments to strongly consider banning plastic bottled water to help protect the environment from the damage that plastic creates.
Surfers Against Sewage is a marine conservation group, who arrange beach clean ups regularly and document how much plastic they have gathered from beaches. They also write their own manifestos and reports on climate change updates and sea life, that can be viewed publicly on their website along with donation requests for the group.
The group is made up of families who share an interest in surfing who have all joined together to spread awareness of the overwhelming pollution of plastic. The families include young children and grandparents who have banded together to arrange sea pickups and donations.
Hugo Tagholm, of Surfers Against Sewage, says: “Plastic production is set to double in the next 20 years and quadruple by 2050, so the time to act is now.
Whilst the production of throwaway plastics has grown dramatically over the last 20 years, the systems to contain, control, reuse and recycle them just haven’t kept pace.”
The surfers are calling out for people to stop purchasing plastic bottles, not only for the benefit of the environment but also to support local water suppliers rather than the large corporations that have been heavily contributing to the rise in climate change.
Plastic on beaches and in the oceans has become a global crisis. Plastic makes up around 40 per cent of the ocean’s surface and at current rates, plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050.
This shows the high risk of extinction of our sea life in years to come. A study completed by The World’s Count stated that the world’s oceans could be virtually emptied of fish by 2048. If nothing happens, the world will run out of seafood by 2048. When fish eventually do become extinct, the ocean will no longer be able to perform many of its essential functions, leading to a lower quality of life. People will starve as they lose a main food source, and for some, the only food source.
Only around 9 per cent of plastic bottles are recycled and 91 per cent arrive at landfills and in the ocean. It seems experts on the matter demand some sort of change to be made, if not banning. They are urging everyone to decrease their usage of plastic in some way.
Environmental experts say the eco system is undeniably suffering from the large amount of waste covering our planet, and continue to emphasise that it is everyone’s duty to help in some way.