A call to get out and pick it up..so the poor albatross chicks don’t starve and we stop poisoning the seas as well as the earth…
Plastic
Plastic is a poison when it breaks down in the sea
That isn’t good for animals including you and me
So if you see some orphaned plastic lying around
Don’t hesitate – pick it up off the ground
Albatross are starving, seals are getting strangled,
Innocent turtles are hopelessly entangled
Our rubbish circles endlessly round in the sea
While we all get poisoned by PCB’s *
Plastic isn’t food, it’s a poisonous addiction
We’ve got to kick the habit, stop believing the fiction
That a plastic culture sets the world free
When we havn’t learned to manage its toxicity
The ocean is a beautiful and wonderful thing
A place where whales and dolphins sing
If we fill it up with junk, they’ll have no place to go
We’v got to clean up, we’ve got to grow
Out of this habit, this destructive addiction
We’ve got to stop believing the lies and fiction
That consumer culture can ever set us free
We’ve got to start to take responsibility
because
Plastic is a poison when it breaks down in the sea
That isn’t good for animals including you and me
So when you find that plastic on the ground
Pick it up – don’t leave it lying around !
*PCB’s
Polychlorinated biphenyls – artificially synthesised chemical compounds, added to glue, paints, fire retardents to add durability; subsequently discovered to be highly toxic to living creatures; they are stored in fat and spread through the food chain and are especially damaging to larger animals higher up the food chain including humans; part of a class known as persistent organic pollutants or POPs which travel in the top surface microlayer of the ocean, and have been found accumulated in ice in polar regions. POPs are invisible and do not break down easily.