Plastic Free New Zealand is primarily based on 'our seas our future'. A campaign highlighting the effect of plastics and other human activity pollution on our environment, a promotion to use alternatives to plastic to reduce the threats plastic has to marine ecosystems and human health. Millions of metric tons of plastic pollute the world's ocean.
A constant circle is occurring where plastics come back and effect our human health when we eat seafood. Plastics choke the water ways, damages marine ecosystems, and become part of the marine food chain - eventually living within the foods we then consume. Plastic circulates in our environment floating, sinking and dispersing into microplastics that can be mistaken for food, moving up the food chain and causing a threat to us.
Ocean plastic, regrettably, results from human behaviour.
"I think the most powerful information is the human health factor," Streeter said "If people understand that the same issues that offend them (plastic on the beach) and distress them (animal's entangled) also extend to people, in terms of the toxins that are building up in our bodies because of all the different ways in which we are exposed to it, that will encourage change."
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