JUST
OUT!! -
Try our new FOOD PARCEL, harvested by hand from
Suffolk's beaches, guaranteed to tempt turtles
and marine mammals!
What's
in it?
Each
one contains 800g of plastic bags and film - the quantity found
inside the stomach of a minke whale washed up on a Normandy beach. The
U.N. estimate that over 100,000 marine mammals and turtles die
each year as a result of eating or becoming entangled with plastic.
IMPORTANT:
Read the warnings below before ordering.
WARNING:
CONTENTS MAY CAUSE STARVATION AND DEATH. TO AVOID UNNECESSARY
LOSS OF WILDLIFE, READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW CAREFULLY.
Instructions:
Approximately
13 billion plastic bags are given out to shoppers in Britain
every year and huge numbers of them end up in our oceans. Plastic
bags are one of the most common items seen floating out at
sea.
Floating plastic bags mimic the movement of jellyfish, turtles’ favourite
food. As a result, they are often mistaken for food by turtles and marine mammals,
causing a slow and painful death. Five different species of turtle visit our
UK waters often with deadly results -
many of the items in our food parcels contain holes and bite marks.
Many countries have now banned plastic bags or imposed taxes
to reduce their use. Some towns here in the UK, impatient with
government inaction, have now gone Plastic
Bag Free, encouraged
by the fantastic initiative of BBC wildlife photographer Rebecca
Hosking and the people of Modbury in Devon.
Plastic can take up to 1000 years or more to degrade in sea-water.
Even then microscopic particles remain which find their way into
our environment, becoming more concentrated in creatures at the
top of the food chain (for example, humans and dolphins). Some
items in our parcels are over 30 years old (dated by on-pack
special offers).
To help minimise future damage to marine wildlife, our environment
and ourselves, never leave rubbish on the beach, at sea or in
rivers, always collect and dispose of properly any plastic you
see on the beach, avoid flushing sanitary towels or liners down
the toilet, reduce your own use of plastic as much as possible
(especially ‘disposable’ items), re-use as much as
you can and always dispose of plastic properly at the end of
its useful life.
May
also contain: toxins
including dioxins and other persistent organic pollutants
in high concentrations. These may be seriously damaging to
health.
Avoid
all contact with humans.
Contact
us at foodparcel@flyintheface.com to ask for a quotation.
Offer subject availability.
Patent applied for.
Another production from www.flyintheface.com.
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PLASTIC
FANTASTIC? Click here to find out more about
plastics, their impact on our seas and wildlife and
what we can do to help -
including downloadable educational resources.
The
contents of this food parcel were collected whilst walking
to save some sea. whilst walking to save some sea -
find out here about my 46000 Challenge |
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