Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Plastic Now In All Our Bodies
Did any of you see the news and the front page of the Evening Standard yesterday saying that in the 1st tests done on humans, every sample came up positive. Volunteers from 8 countries, including Britain, all had potentially dangerous micro particles in their systems - from fish, Cosmetics including toothpaste, tap water or beer!!
The EU has just voted to ban a range of single use plastics - see article here: EU votes to ban single use plastics.
We all know about plastic bags but I was just wondering what else we, as consumers and business owners in Harringay, could stop buying or selling to reduce the risks to ourselves and our families.
I thought of disposable razors - What else should be on the list?
And some bars on Green Lanes have already switched to paper straws - could others follow?
Could Harringay become a no plastic zone?
In the meantime sign this petition on "Change": UK Ban - All Disposable / Single use plastic
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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As plastic breaks down it... well, it breaks down. I am bit shocked about the beer though. I'd like to see a second opinion on that.
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Permalink Reply by Michele on
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Have added link above to the article - if its in water and they use water to brew beer …..
Comes from micro beads that are undetectable to the naked eye and found in fish/shell fish that we eat, bottled and tap water, etc etc
No one knows the long term consequences. Which bright spark thought it was ok to put them in toothpaste?
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It's not just the "tiny beads". As a plastic bag breaks down in sunlight floating on the top of the ocean, it breaks down into smaller and smaller bits. All plastic does this. They byproducts of the fossil fuel industry are even more dangerous than the actual products that they tell us they're selling. The recent resealing of Green Lanes near Duckett's Common is a case in point of how they manage to sell us crap that's unsuitable for the job we need it for, in this case bitumen for sealing roads. If we didn't buy it, they'd have to bury it in the ground somewhere which would probably cost them. What a wonderful wheeze it is selling it, ditto most plastic. Subsidised by our desire to drive motorcars.
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