Message in a plastic bottle's writer regrets not using glass after beach clean-up crew's find
A chance discovery of a message in a bottle during a beach clean-up has prompted calls to romantics to think twice before throwing plastic bottles into the sea. Key points: A message in a plastic bottle has prompted environmentalists to issue their own message The find at the end of a beach clean-up buoyed volunteers The sender has vowed to use a glass bottle for her next broadcast About 30 volunteers were wearily packing up after removing 600 kilograms of rubbish from Cowley Beach on far north Queensland's Cassowary Coast on October 22 when the capsule surfaced from the jetsam. "I don't know what made me think to use a plastic bottle," she said. Ms Flanders said the clean-up group would keep the handwritten message as a keepsake, but the plastic bottle went straight to recycling.
Discover Related
Fishing community pulls plastic from its waters
Fishing community pulls plastic from its waters
Warning issued to UK shoppers buying washing-up liquid
Warning issued to UK shoppers buying washing-up liquid
Clinging to shards of hope: glass on a difficult recycling journey
Has a UC Berkeley chemistry lab discovered the holy grail of plastic recycling?
Why reusable plastics can’t fix the climate crisis
Quantum of plastic waste cleared from Tiruchy city drains sets off alarm bells
Why Travellers Offer Plastic Water Bottles At This ‘Haunted’ Site In Ladakh
I avoided plastic for a week. Here is what I learned about a plastic-free life
Australia considers mandating recycled plastic packaging as beaches drown in rubbish
Flagship government recycling scheme delayed until 2027
Coca-Cola and Nestle accused of greenwashing over bottle recycling claims
Several Schiphol Airport shops quit selling plastic water bottles
Message in a bottle from 1891 found while renovating Leeuwarden station
Coke could help save oceans from plastic — by keeping its promise
Millions of Britons ‘still not recycling cardboard, food and plastic’
Is it safe to reuse plastic bottles? Mum uses juice bottles for storage in her pantry
First day of single-use plastic ban: Less awareness, no enforcement
Visakhapatnam: Audience pose interesting questions to judges at meet on plastic menace