The most watched programme of 2017 has done much to raise awareness of the damage plastic does to wildlife – with the final instalment showing albatross parents feeding it to their hungry chicks. Earlier episodes had featured a whale carrying her dead newborn calf, likely poisoned by plastic in her milk, and a turtle caught in a plastic sack.
Cutting the use of plastic is a cause that here at Lunt's Heath we feel passionate about. As the Christmas season fast approaches, we will be taking measures such as banning the use of glitter. As a ubiquitus microplastic, glitter easily finds its way into waterways and oceans, much like microbeads, which was subject to a government ban in cosmetics from the end of 2017.
Listen to this weeks episode of our plastic podcast to find out what else we will be doing as a school to help combat the problem.