I admit I have become a bit jaded. About BEACH CLEANS. I recognise the clean up as a hugely important aspect of the plastics awakening & empowering action item for engaging ppl in the movement. And I know that the heavier side of the plastics crisis is further upstream, when the oil is violently pulled from the earth in communities that are poisoned & forgotten. In the manufacture of plastics in poor conditions w/o any regard for the workers’ health/ lungs. The mass distribution of these single-use plastic products as packaging for other products, used & immediately discarded, THEN ending up as beach trash.

When the focus is: the clean up of beaches; I say Yes, And…

Heavy rains, flash flooding, communities cut off, animals stranded. The annual flooding in the northern rivers region begins.

But how is this weather pattern impacted or intensified by the warming climate?

La Niña is an expected weather pattern that occurs every couple of years, as a result of variations in ocean temperatures in the equatorial band of the Pacific Ocean. Strong winds blow warm water on the ocean's surface away from South America, across the Pacific Ocean towards Indonesia.

The Australian government is looking at a bill tomorrow that COULD BAN PLASTICS—yet will not, unless we MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD! We must call and email our state reps to send the DEAFENING MESSAGE that we are ready to progress past plastic pollution for good! READ MORE, TAKE ACTION, SHARE!