Reducing Plastic Waste by Growing your Garden

It’s that time of the year again... Plastic Free July! Once again, it is time to talk about plastic pollution. The sad fact is that plastic pollution is responsible for 1.1 to 1.8 million metric tonnes of plastic waste entering waterways and oceans every year. It is estimated that 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic have been produced since the 1950s at a rate of 380 million tonnes a year and although there have been efforts made to reduce the plastic waste that enters the environment only about 9% is recycled worldwide...