Goodbye for now
Today, it’s time. It’s the moment I have to sadly say goodbye and bring this blog to a close. This blog has been an enjoyable and staple part of my life for the last few months. I hope my readers have enjoyed it and hopefully learnt one or two things about plastics, as I know I have. When I first started this blog, I was completely unaware of the complex production trends and environmental issues posed from plastics. I was quite naïve considering the scale and consumption of plastic within our everyday life, which I explored during my initial first posts. Over time, I've come to understand how plastics, including both macro-plastics and micro-plastics are negatively impacting our marine environment . As the blog progressed, I recognised the infancy of the preliminary research involving our understanding of micro-plastics within our marine and terrestrial environments . The wider repercussions from our single-use plastic society are still widely unknown, with each passing w...