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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Towers of Plastic Bottles Haiku

No More Fairy Tales, XXVIII
written in response to the climate summit held in Ottawa, Canada to create a "legally-binding plastic pollution instrument through the United Nations."

entrance to UN's summit
row upon row of towers
of plastic bottles



FYI:

We won’t ban our way out of plastic pollution, we won’t recycle our way out of plastic pollution, and we won’t reuse our way out of plastic pollution. We need to do a better job of all these things at different steps and different types of plastics,” Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault said at the conference Tuesday.

-- Global News, April 23: What UN plastic waste treaty talks in Ottawa want: ‘Won’t recycle our way out.’ 


AddedNo More Fairy Tales, XXIX

Earth Day
this childhood river now a stream
going nowhere