Hello. I’m finally back again. Now, I’m pretty sure that I have talked about compost before. Now for sea debris. (I’m a poet and I don’t know it)

Imagine this. (Or maybe you don’t have to. Maybe you’re at the checkout counter right now waiting for your turn while reading this on your phone.) A cashier gives you your total. You put your bags in your cart. You take it out to your car. When you get home you throw the plastic bags away. Plastic! You just threw out a PLASTIC bag. P-L-A-S-T-I-C!

The bag get’s blown away from the dump. The wind dies down. The bag lands in a stream and fills with water. It slowly drifts downstream. It flows into the Missouri River. No, this is not a meditation exercise. The Missouri River pulls it into the ocean. It drifts into a current. It flows straight into the feeding grounds of the Leatherback Turtle. A Leatherback spies a Jellyfish. Or is it a Jellyfish? The Leatherback chomps down. But it was not a Jellyfish. It was the plastic bag! (duh duh duh,) the Leatherback starts choking. It’s running out of air! The Leatherback tries on more desperate attempt to breath. And then dies.

Plastic bags don’t only affect turtles. They affect anything and everything and can take up to 20 YEARS to decompose in the ocean. Make it simple. Lead a rebellion. Talk to store owners. Only use paper bags. Recycle plastic bags. Help make our oceans beautiful again!