The fish we eat swim in plastic soup

Plastics are polluting our beautiful planet. Bags, straws, packaging, discarded car tires...all bad. But the bigger worry is microbeads. Those tiny bits of plastic often come in producs like toothpaste, hair extensions and body scrubs. 

Retailers are now focusing on that nice glittery stuff often found in and on Christmas ornaments. 

Although it will help reducing the little pieces of plastic that turn up in the ocean (and therefore in the foodchain. So, yes, changes are you are digesting pure plastic when you have a nice piece of fish), it won't do as much good as banning synthetic clothing. Like the funny pinguin costume I like to wear on special occassions or that funny sweateryou got yourself for the Christmas party at work. 

Every time we wash those, little pieces of plastic they end up where they don't belong: in the environment

Yes, it helps to ban glitter but is makes more sense to stop buying funny costumes.

I started to ban plastic bags and buying 'care' products containing microbeads and this years Christmas ornaments will contain no glitter. How will you contribute to the reducing of plastic waste?

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The Floor (a short story)

As soon as he saw her he knew he wanted to see more of her. 

Not much later he joined the poets' collective that she was a member of 

and during meetings he would make sure to be sitting opposite her for the best view.

Sitting next to her was rather sweet as well for then he could smell the scent of her hair. 

Of that of her sweat on the nights she had been to the gym 

and had not taken the time to shower first.

He did not need words to describe his feelings for her, others could do that.

Within a year he shared a Paris hotel room with her. Where he awoke on the floor.

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You're on tape!

Thanks to voice recordings we know how Donald Trump thinks about women.

We also know how his wife thinks about Christmas and immigrant children.

America's First Lady (and Trump's third wife) seems to have forgotten she herself is an immigrant who - without her rich client husband - would still live a rather anonymous life.

This is all public information. Information their fans have too. So why do they still support the president and his misstress wife?

Perhaps because they're stupid?

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