No Odinary Treasure Hunt Hello Tail Flippers from FanPlasitc Girl Gear! The chilly season is upon us here in Eastern Canada, which means that the majority of you Northern Mers are no longer swimming outdoors. Time for Vitamin D drops!
the people here, I enjoy escaping from the traffic, loud trains, and oil refinery emissions. We are very lucky to have the ocean right here! It allows us the option of fun boat travels, houses our sea creatures, fuels or thirst, and refreshes us –yet we
I hope the season was kind to you, and that you found our waters a little less polluted than last year. I’m sure you have found an abundance of plastic debris floating in your travels, as I have found in mine. I’m not lucky enough to don a beautiful tail to propel me through the waves; so my adventures are bound to land. And, since the beaches will be freezing soon, I thought I would take this opportunity to recap my treasures from earlier this year. I’m not your ordinary treasure hunter. My trails don’t come with a map, and I’ve yet to find an “X” marking any spot! I search the beaches for anything not native to them. Neon pink, bright blue, metallic silver… when I spot these colors I know I’m in the right place. Plastic trash is everywhere, if you open your eyes to it, you’ll see it. Any piece I see, I pick up. I take them home, clean them, and process them into new wearable accessories for mermaids and humans alike! Each piece is displayed on “tree-free” cards, labeled with what they used to be, and added to the FanPlastic Girl Gear store and showcase. Since I live in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia – I spend the majority of my time at local beaches, lakes, and ponds when the weather lets me. Like so many of
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haven’t protected it as we should. The Halifax Harbour carries more than Theodore Tugboat; pop bottles, candy wrappers, and bags litter its body. Eastern Passage’s playful waves splash broken toys, cell phone cases, and even plastic lawn chairs onto its shores. And although common sense tells me that Lake Banook shouldn’t have a static problem, it sure likes to collect Bounce rollers like it does. And the ducks living in the attached pond have yet to find a use for the empty shampoo bottles that float with them… “Pick it up. Put it on!” is a simple way for everyone to contribute to cleaner waters, and prevent our less defensive animals/ mammals from wearing our trash inadvertently. There are approximately seven billion people on this planet. If every person took responsibility for just one piece of plastic, that would make seven billion less pieces offending the planet. How many pieces have you picked up?