A real issue we can all address on our own
The recent heath wave brought a massive part of the society to the coastside despite the pandemic if it wouldn’t be enough the people went and enjoyed and of course littered the coast sides costing us tax payers a huge sum of money let alone about the pollution side of it.
The summer is far from over and that is worrying, it can go on like this.
Let me get you all a great tip, start to put your litter in the place it belongs to, the bin.
It’s not that difficult at all, I feel a bit of responsibility is missing from the people. Truth to be told, we did not inherit this world from our ancesters, yet we borrowed it from our children. The mentality has to change, one step change in our habits can make wonders, if we can take to a picknick our food, than I am 100% sure we can also take their packinging home if there’s no bin arround. Obviously I first and foremost encourage everyone to find a bin, that’s not that difficult, but in case if there isn’t any, than you can go with plan 1 so take back home.
In Bournemouth, the people left more than 41 tonnes of rubbish in the sand, that’s the amount of rubbish that were collected, but the real number is potentially higher as the waste could also end up in the ocean, seagulls and other birds could pick them and the wind could blow them away also.
The marine life is also suffering due to the amount of waste flow into the oceans, ultimately ending up as fish food and we consume those fishes also, whenever you throw your garbage out think about it for minute, this rubbish gets into the ecosystem and will end up on our plate too.
What’s happened multiple times sadly in Bournemouth this year is a disgrace for us all, let me get you an idea to see what I am talking about;
An estimated 500,000 people visits Bournemouth during the hot weekends.
I guess we can all say that social distancing did not work and was not enforced effectively.
It shouldn’t be normal for people to create this mess and also to sit around that much of rubbish.
Would you come to this dump? If not, than don’t create one, take ownership.
A sad view for us all.
Looking at these pictures I feel upset, the waste problem is really real unfortunately and sourrounding us, we have to change, that small change could be that we are stop wasting, I don’t want to force no one into minimalism and furthermore I know I am very far away from a capsule wardrobe type of hardcore minimalism yet, but at least I can fairly say that I drastically reduced my overall waste, reusing materials, products, recycle wherever I can and said a big no to food waste.
For anyone who’s in the beginning of their journey I would highly recommend as a first step to stop wasting resources and ultimately money, say no to food waste, it is the easiest part I believe, check your fridge and see how much food do you waste in times when other people don’t have anything to eat, don’t overpurchase parishable food, a good second step could be if you would be really conscious about rubbish, every single time you must place your rubbish to the bin and not throwing away on the street or leaving it in the sand on the beach and would encourage your friends and family too and others if you seem them littering.
What do you think about this issue? Are the people behaving the same way in your country/city? What can be done to prevent this to happen again?
Be an example in your circle, we don’t need thousands to be perfect minimalists, we need millions to be imperfect minimalists.
Your sincerely
To/Minimal
