Plastic pollution has gotten much worse over the last couple months in Kent and in Medway especially, says the Southeast Rivers Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Medway is the post polluted part of the county along with 43 of its other areas are more than double the World Health Organisation suggested levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gloria Francalanci, Plastics projects manager at the Southeast Rivers Trust said that over the last few months due to the tide, a concerning amount of plastic and other rubbish has washed up along the Medway Riverbank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said: \u2018I think we are all in danger, there\u2019s plastic in our food chain, I think every organism on this planet needs to be worried about this, plastic has been found in every single area on the globe. It\u2019s in the air we breathe, it\u2019s in the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean, it\u2019s in ice caps, so we all need to care about it. All you have to do is to look around to see how bad the issue is.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Residents that live near the river have been affected the most. Terry Sims who has lived in the area for over 30 years said, \u2018I couldn\u2019t believe my eyes when I saw the amount of the amount of rubbish. It\u2019s almost triple what was there last week. I even saw a hoover, a hoover! Who\u2019s dumping that?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Medway isn\u2019t the only area in Kent that has seen an influx of pollution. Laurey Harpum, who lives in Sheppey has even seen the beaches littered with commercial waste. She stated how infuriating it was that fly tipping has become a major problem. She also said that the item she always sees no matter what are \u2018those helium balloons ones meant to celebrate a loved one and I understand people have the best of intentions before they set them off, but it makes me angry that they don\u2019t think about where they will end up.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Belinda Lamb project officer at the Medway Swale Estuary Partnership believes that the solution lies in individual people educating themselves and passing the message along. She said: \u2018I don\u2019t think the government should take any more action unless we\u2019re all happy for our taxes to go up a lot more. It cost a lot of money to organise rubbish clean-ups, plus the council really help anyone who wanted to go out and collect rubbish by organising litter collections, providing litter pickers, and bin bags, so I think we all need to take responsibility for our litter.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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