Today is the first day that I publish on the blog, and yes! This is a new project that is particularly close to my heart. Sharing and exchanging advice or opinions on the environment and everyday objects with you is the mission I have given myself with this blog.
So I hope you'll enjoy it and that you'll have a good time every week with me! 🙂
For this first day, talking about the oceans and the seas seems essential to me (talking about summer will also allow us to warm up a little with our t-shirts under our winter sweaters). We love the sun, the tropics, the sand, vacations by the sea… But yet, we often forget everything there is around…
For example, this year I went on vacation in the south, I love cutting and warming up for a moment in the sun, like most French people! Take off your t-shirt and sunbathe on the sand, what more could you ask for when it's hot. But I can't deny that from year to year there is more and more plastic or waste in the oceans and seas and I find that it shocks fewer and fewer people and it bothers me. Not you ?
Did you know that 71% of the Earth's surface is covered in water? The ocean plays a vital role in regulating the climate: thanks to the currents and winds that sweep the surface of the sea, the ocean produces an exchange of heat and gases with the atmosphere. The ocean is also valuable as it is a vital source of food resources for billions of people around the world.
And that's not all… Every day, 8 million tonnes of waste end up in our seas and oceans. And we humans are 100% responsible for aquatic litter and are 80% plastic. According to a study conducted by the Ellen McArthur Foundation, it is estimated that in 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the seas and oceans… 1 Million birds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed by aquatic litter every year, just that… That should be enough to alarm us and try to change things, right?
The Earth is a gift, you shouldn't take everything for granted, nothing is eternal, that's why you have to take care of everything and why I have a huge crush on the bbb La Brosse Bleu des Mers model. It is a beautiful tribute to our beautiful blue planet. Born from an eco-design approach, from a desire to reduce the environmental impact as much as possible over the entire life cycle, from raw materials to recycling. It is made from recycled plastics and biosourced materials, such as agricultural, marine and vegetable waste, which is a gift for nature, because instead of wandering and polluting the environment, they are given a second life.
We forget too quickly that everything has a role to play and that the environment must be at the heart of everything.
