Plastic☹️- Built to last for ever but when it breaks is very difficult to repair & effectively immediately becomes trash. Encountered this scene on the way home meaning I had to do a quick #2minutestreetclean ✌️ . . In London you can pick up great stuff off the street. I have plenty of furniture aquired this way 🛋🛏🛁. If people are getting rid of something they often just put it outside & it's normally not long before someone comes along & takes it. I think that was the intention with these 2 plastic boxes (last photo) but somehow one of the lids ended up in the street & CRUNCH 🚗🚎🚙🚌🛵😞 Brittle plastic smithereenes 👎 . . When I saw this I hesitated, I had a hungry baby, needed to pee & was in a bit of a rush to get somewhere 🏃♀️... but I just couldn't walk on by 😣🙈 it took only a few minutes & hopefully prevented all these tiny little microplastics from being washed down the drains💦. It's not much in the grande scheme but this one lid could kill a few sea birds once in the 🌊 💀🕊😢It's always worth it!☝️I also kept a handful of the fragments to use in an art project (I'd have kept more but running out of storage) so most of this went in a nearby bin sadly. . . Something we can all do is try to buy less, buy things that last a lifetime, second hand is best, repair them when they break & avoid plastic if possible. In the long run it's cheaper than buying junk that's going to last a couple of years before breaking or needing replaced. #2minutestreetclean #trashtag #streetclean (at Canonbury) https://www.instagram.com/plasticprayerflags/p/BwcCbRLnRZ4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1drfge6t3w1or
