Plastic rubbish on the beach reminds us of a Vegemite-covered knife

By Damon Cronshaw
October 20 2021 - 8:00am
Polluted: Plastic accounts for 84 per cent of all rubbish found on Australian beaches. Lindsay and Sophie Brown on Birubi Beach in Port Stephens in 2017, with thousands of plastic bottle caps collected over a year. Picture: Sophie Brown
Polluted: Plastic accounts for 84 per cent of all rubbish found on Australian beaches. Lindsay and Sophie Brown on Birubi Beach in Port Stephens in 2017, with thousands of plastic bottle caps collected over a year. Picture: Sophie Brown

One day - maybe millions of years in the future when humans are long gone - bacteria will probably evolve to eat all the plastic pollution that humans have spread across this beautiful planet.

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