#524: Man

By Steve Cutts - made in 2012, but only just came across it... looks at our relationship with the natural world - dark humour, so don't watch if you're particularly sensitive.

#306: Changing our plastic habits

I have a Google Alert set up for the phrase 'GCSE Natural History'

The qualification will need to make reference to threats to the landscape.

The Manufacturer is a journal for industry.

This article makes reference to one of the suggested content sections in the consultation - whether it makes it to the draft specification is unknown at the moment.

Julian Hoffman's 'Irreplaceable' touches on the plastic threat when he visits the beach in the chapter entitled 'A world within water'.

He describes the discovery of the plastic nurdles which make up a part of any handful of beach sand in most of the world.

A useful quote to use in any use - remove the word plastic, and see whether people can work out what the missing word is...

"For all its unquestionable usefulness for the human race, a convenience that's turned out to be irressistible to us, plastic places an unearthly burden on the rest of the living world."