Randy Blythe: We Need To Find Alternatives To The Plastics That Are Killing Our Oceans
I don’t think people really understand the issue of plastics. Like most people who live by the coast, I tend to be a little bit more aware of the environmental impact of plastic. We see it on our beaches. I travel and I surf constantly. But in other places where there’s not as much recycling or dumping regulations, you just see trash on the fucking beach. It’s everywhere, and a lot of it is plastic. There’s also a lot of plastic that you can’t see; micro-plastic, they call it. It’s where larger pieces of plastic break down into smaller pieces that are between one and three millimetres in size. Microplastics are basically invisible to the naked eye, but they’re there and they’re entering the food chain. Fish eat them, the bigger fish eat those fish and so on… Out in the Pacific th...
