Thank goodness for crystal clear sea water bays, the ones all over Instagram at the moment (seems a lot of people are in Greece this year!). But horrific though it sounds, the reality is if we don’t (i.e. the entire human race) clean up our beach act, things will be too dire to even contemplate. I do worry for future generations.
The sea and our coastlines are not wastebins, not toilets,  they’re living, breathing marvels of Nature.
So all hail people like Natalie Fee who I spotted on Twitter this week. She left a job in TV to focus on campaigns like “Refill”, which aims to make reusing plastic bottles simpler than buying them.

Photo: Adrian Sherratt for The Guardian
Read: The Bristol refill, reuse bottle campaign that’s spreading across Europe”  THE GUARDIAN The launch pad has been Bristol, but the movement’s spreading outwards – fast. As Natalie says in a Guardian article:
?We?ve still got a long way to go to get people in the habit of refilling and refusing single-use. But it feels like things are changing, that there is an appetite to do things differently.?

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Good habits take a little while to “gel” but this one’s one that’s not hard to adopt. In Australia according to the Guardian piece they have free clean water refill fountains and just down the road from where I stayed for a while ,on the border of France and Switzerland, there’s an old f...