Ingesting a Credit Card? Can I make mine Visa ?

Not funny. Author Laura Trethewey in her book The Imperiled Ocean cites a 2019 report that "the average person ate a credit-card-card-sized amount of plastic each day." And I don't think we have a choice as to the final product of our ingestion. We do have a choice on how much plastic we let blow into our ocean. We can pick up the plastic bags,cups and lids that will blow onto our beloved beach and then into our piece of the Atlantic.

Today's Catch of the Day is  Black Friday themed. Lots of other pieces of Styrofoam went into the recycling bin. How sad that we now are living in an era called the Plasticene.

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