Chapter 866: The Plastic Pollution Crisis

Following Xu Fang's gaze, Xu Fang saw a sea fish, floating on the sea at the moment, and now dead.

If it was an ordinary dead fish, Xu Fang would definitely not care, there are so many fish in the sea, isn't it normal for dead fish to die? But this fish is different.

Xu Fang rode over on a motorboat and scooped up the fish, so that he could see clearly that the head of the fish was wrapped in a transparent plastic bag at the moment.

The fish must have crashed into the plastic bag, probably because it was too stupid to break free. The plastic bag gagged its mouth and gills, and it was suffocated alive.

After seeing this fish, Xu Fang's heart hurt a little!

The survival of the fittest is the law of nature. But what kind of survival is this kind of suffocation by plastic bags? It's all because of plastic pollution!

The sea area here in Yuehai Village is very clean, and Xu Fang also has high requirements for garbage control, and under normal circumstances, garbage will not enter the sea. Now that the sea area of Yuehai Village has been polluted by plastic, how much of the world's sea area has been polluted?

Remove the plastic bag from the fish's head and put it in the storage compartment of the motorboat, and then Xu Fang drove the motorboat quickly towards the village.

When he was about to reach the coast, Xu Fang stopped the motorboat casually on the sea area, which was still some distance from the coast, and ordinary people couldn't get over. He took off his clothes, took a deep breath, and then plunged into the sea, and when he entered the sea, Xu Fang's true qi in his body was running rapidly, and his body was moving quickly on the bottom of the sea like a fish.

Xu Fang looked at the situation at the bottom of the sea with wide eyes, and it didn't take long for Xu Fang to find a plastic bag behind a stone. After shaking the plastic bag open, there were some dead shells, crabs and other animals inside.

After putting away the plastic bag, Xu Fang swam forward again, and after a while, Xu Fang's eyes narrowed, and he saw a plastic drink cup floating in the seawater, Xu Fang took the plastic cup back and swam forward.

After swimming at the bottom of the sea for twenty minutes, Xu Fang already had a lot of garbage in his hands. There were plastic bags, plastic cups, broken bottles, torn clothes, etc., Xu Fang surfaced with a gloomy face, and after getting dressed, he rode a motorboat to the shore.

After parking the motorboat, Xu Fang threw the garbage into the trash can and walked towards his home.

After returning home, Xu Fang took a simple shower, wiped it off, and only then did he feel the anger in his head receding little by little, and his calmness and reason returned to his brain again.

"In the pure land of Yuehai Village, it is inevitable that there will be so much garbage, and so many marine creatures will die because of garbage. There are more dirty places in the world than the sea area of Yuehai Village, so how many marine lives must die?" Xu Fang thought silently in his heart, took out a bottle of drink from the refrigerator and drank it in one gulp, took a long breath and sat on the sofa, turned on the computer and began to query the information.

After searching for some important information, Xu Fang also felt shocked when he looked at this information.

Marine pollution is now so severe that countless marine life dies every year. The global environment is a whole, and once the marine environment is seriously damaged, it will cause immeasurable harm to the entire human race.

There are also many causes of marine pollution, including oil pollution, metal pollution, pesticide pollution, solid pollution, etc. These problems were not easy for Xu Fang to solve, and soon Xu Fang's eyes fell on the word marine garbage.

Marine litter is divided into floating garbage, beach litter, and seabed litter.

Most of them are plastic bags, plastic bottles, cigarette butts, fishing nets, fast food boxes, etc. Among them, plastic waste is the largest, and according to the results of Xu Fang's investigation in the sea area near Yuehai Village, this is indeed the case.

Xu Fang didn't know why he suddenly became interested in protecting the ocean, probably because he knew that he was abandoned by his family and was in a bad mood, and wanted to find an outlet that could make him happy, and it happened that the dead fish gave Xu Fang a touch and inspired his determination to protect the ocean.

Whatever the reason, now that these problems have been discovered, Xu Fang has decided to take care of them.

He knew that his personal power was limited, and he couldn't solve it at once when the ocean was so big, and the pollution he noticed most intuitively was plastic, so Xu Fang decided to start with plastic waste.

I don't know, when Xu Fang really understands the marine plastic waste, his heart also feels a little trembling.

I thought that the ocean was very large, there were so many creatures on the bottom of the sea, and what humans did would not affect the order of the ocean, but after careful observation, Xu Fang realized that his understanding was very wrong!

Plastic can be found in almost every ocean, no matter how remote it is! About 5 million people die every year because of plastic waste, and this state is getting worse.

Eight million tonnes of plastic are thrown into the sea every year, and the ratio of plastic to plankton in the ocean is now estimated to be about one to two, and if humans remain indifferent, in a few decades, the plastic in the ocean will add up to be heavier than the fish in the sea combined!

All kinds of plastics enter the ocean, and after being exposed to the wind and sun, they will be decomposed into microplastics, which will be eaten by fish, and then eaten by people, so that plastic particles will remain in the human body, thus affecting people's health.

What is the difference between destroying the ocean and destroying oneself by making the earth a livable planet, producing half of the world's oxygen and providing infinite resources for mankind?

After reading this information, Xu Fang took a deep breath and sat on the sofa thinking about how to solve this problem.

Nowadays, plastics are mainly plastic bottles, plastic bags, and take-out boxes, and if you want to solve this problem, one is to constantly call on people to raise their awareness of environmental protection and not litter. The second is to let people use less plastic products and reduce the generation of garbage.

But plastic bags and other products do facilitate people's lives, and I want people to give up using plastic bags, unless there are products that replace plastic!

With the current technology, the world has not found a suitable replacement for the time being. Xu Fang thought about it, maybe there was a way on the Azure Star.

After making up his mind, Xu Fang took out the sundial, and the true qi in his body worked, and the true qi fell on the sundial texture along his fingers, and began to draw according to the texture. After the last stroke fell, the original feeling of dizziness did not come, and after a long time, Xu Fang still stayed in the living room, not to mention shuttling through the planet, and he didn't even move his seat.

"Could it be that I haven't drawn it for a long time, and this time it's wrong?" Xu Fang drew again without believing in evil.

After this drawing, there was still no reaction as just now, and Xu Fang realized that he might have cut off contact with Azure Star.

Although I don't know why the sundial can't be used, but that's the case, and Xu Fang had to put the sundial aside.

Xu Fang is not a person who feels sorry for himself, if one path doesn't work, then he can find another way!

Since the technology of Azure Star is not available, I can integrate some senior talents to specialize in this topic!

After thinking clearly, Xu Fang began to look for talents on the Internet who have a deep research on "plastic substitutes".