About a year ago I channeled a message from Mother Earth who was pleading for our help in saving the oceans. I saw tiny living beings exploding and dying in mass annihilation. Scientists are finding now that the ocean is being systematically poisoned and plastics are beginning to kill off the smallest, most important organisms at the bottom of the food chain. Listen to the interview from WHYY here
I heard an interview on January 23rd in which Captain Charles Moore spoke about the Great Pacific Garbage patch. Ever since listening to that interview, I have found myself unable to tear my eyes away from every piece of plastic in my environment. As I look at each thing: the tab from a bag of bread, the zip top bag from lunch, my contact lense case, I wonder if it will end up in the ocean and it made me so very passionate about wanting to educate myself and others about how to treat various types of plastics.
I have a house cleaning company and see so many of my customers not recycling when there are convenient programs in their townships and I started to feel very cynical about possibly doing anything to affect change. One day as I was driving home, I just decided that I should go to a local park in my town and start picking up trash along the banks of the little creek that runs through it. In no time I had filled an entire 32 gallon garbage bag with plastic bottles, aluminum cans and a mountain of assorted debris. I couldn't believe how much was there. I took it home and sorted it for recycling.
While I was at the park, two people stopped to talk to me about what I was doing. I just said that I had to do something about the trash. One woman told me about a program at Whole Foods markets where they collect recycles #5 and also that an Aveda salon in Cherry Hill, NJ collects plastic bottle caps for recycling. I wondered why I didn't know about that.
I want to do my part to educate. Thanks to this story, the Angels have fanned the small spark inside me that loves this earth so much and now I am fully engulfed in the drive to do everything I can to make a difference.
Take a minute out of your day to notice the trash in your environment and pick it up. Set an example for your children and tell them why we have to do our part to save our planet. It only takes a little momentum to get something good going......yeah!
