BBCNEWS BBC News at One June 4, 2024 13:27:00
From flamborough, in east yorkshire. the spectacular sight of an east coast winter tide. oh, that's fishing line. but it brings with it little reminders of a planet damaged by plastic. they actually think that we only roughly find about 15, 15%, of the litter out at sea. picking up the pieces is an endless task. collected in recent months, some of this was thrown away more than 50 years ago. materials like plastics are extremely durable. they take literally hundreds and hundreds of years to break down, so, for example, take a plastic bottle you drink out of, it takes roughly 450 years to break...