Environmental Issues
Our Environment
Where we row
Our environment consists of three main attributes, water, land and air. All of these are interrelated and dependent on the health of the others. Sadly our environment suffers from contamination in all three spheres. Pollution takes many forms and the natural processes in the environment ensure that these contaminants flow between all three. For example a plastic bottle tossed on the ground can be blown by wind into a dry river bed. After it rains the river transports the bottle to the sea where it may lie dormant for years until finally broken down into microscopic particles of plastic. Evaporation transports these particles high into the atmosphere where they condense as clouds. The microscopic plastic particles fall with the rains on farmers fields and are consumed by plants or animals and in turn by humans in their food. This over-simplified example shows just one possibility.
Land Pollution
The land is polluted an many ways
Oils, chemical spills, refuse, medical bio-hazard spills
Air Pollution
Chemical spills, smoke, exhaust fumes, un-burnt combustion chemicals,medical bio-hazard spills
Water Pollution
Oils, chemical spills, sewage, pesticides, heavy metals, fertilisers, rubber, plastic
The Big Plastic Pledge is an organisation started by Hannah Mills an Olympic Gold and Silver medalist in the sport of Sailing. You can read more about the organisation by following the link below.
We encourage you to take the pledge yourself and do what you can to help reduce the amount of plastic entering the environment.
The facts quoted on the web page are staggering and deeply concerning
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