OCEAN ~ PLASTIC POLLUTION ~ A POINT OF NO RETURN ?
WHY aren't all PLASTICS biodegradable ?
WELL ! The simple answer is because they
Are not Natural Products ~ but Synthetic !
Polymers like CELLULOSE ~ which we use
As Paper - Cardboard - Wood is a Natural Product
So there are environmental MICROBES
Which can decompose them ! WOOL is also
A Natural Product ~ NYLON 66 is
A Synthetic WOOL substitute ~ but not
Biodegradable ! POLYTHENE is a .......
Hydrocarbon ~ long chains of - CH2 -
Units and is not biodegradable !
POLYSTYRENE ~ POLYPROPYLENE ~ PERSPEX
PVC ~ All have structures similar
To POLYTHENE ~ therefore they are also
Non-biodegradable ! In Oceans .......
Plastics do NOT decompose ~ they become
MICRO-PLASTICS which kill FISH and enter
The Food Chain ! So we should replace PLASTICS
Where possible ~ with PAPER & CARDBOARD !
Thanks for visiting ~ comments welcome ~ Love Brian 🧡🧡🧡
This POEM is presented as a Blank Verse Dodecet ~ 20 lines
mainly in Iambic Pentameter ~ 10 syllables per line ~ OK
Some of you may be able to remember the days before most
PLASTICS (1900 to 1945) I was born in 1983 ~ Plastic Age !
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Author:
ANGELA & BRIAN (Pseudonym) (
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Fine write and by coincidence puts me in mind of a shorty I have just written as a play on the word 'decompose':
Unwrite the notes
Of tunes once heard
No more promote
The songs now blurred
As notes erode
In decompose
TOUCHE UNCLE MIKE ~ There is tendancy in any systen for the ENTROPY (dissorder) to increase with time ~ buildings ~ cars ~ gradens etc "Change & Decay in all around I see ............. ! Natures Natural Cycles are programmed to decompose & recycle the chemical elements. There are organisms called DECOMPOSERS to do this. They (as we know) can cope with natural materials such as wood ~ cardboard ~ paper ~ natural fibres etc. Most of the synthetic polymers (polythene) etc are like glass (polysilicate) and remain non-biodegradable ! What was a great blessing is now seen as a curse ! My Grandparents remembered camping with CANVAS BUCKETS and METAL PLATES & MUGS before the 1950's and ALUMINIUM water bottles on their bikes which corroded etc ! Thanks for comment pleased you enjoyed ~ Blessings through Odd Odes ~ BRIAN & ANGELA 🧡🧡🧡🧡
A fine write and explanation B&A. Meanwhile - that's why I'm so old. I'm a plastic, but living, dinosaur! Well, we get called dinosaurs these days if we won't use e-mail, or simple techy things even.
Thanks UNCLE STEVE ~ Pleased you enjoyed it. You will remember the pre-Plastic & pre-Synthetic Fibre days ~ How on Earth did you survive ? Blessings & Love through Poetry ~ BRIAN & ANGELA 🧡🧡🧡🧡
Ohh modern-day dinosaurs - people refusing any sort of techy stuff. 'Ooh, I can't be messing about with pressing these buttons, etc'.... they say! And 'Will the computer make the tea too?'
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A very informative write! I've not attempted a blank verse dodecet before so thank you for that also!
Thanks JAYNE pleased you appreciated the explanations ! I get my students to bury (in damp soil) paper & cardboard and a variety of synthetic plastics and dig them upa year later ! We find the natural polymers have dedocmposed while the Polythene etc is still intact !
I like dodecets (20) because for a subject like this a Sonnet (14) is too short ! They can Rhyme or be Free Verse (no meter) with Bank Verse each line should (if possible) have the same number of syllables. This gives the Poem structure & flow for recitation ~ OK Thanks for your encouraging comment !
Blessings & Joy through Poetry
BRIAN & ANGELA 🧡🧡
An outcry which should be read at all outlets and drummed into every mind - - - more strength to your elbow with this posting my friend.
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