It’s wonderful to see how people have responded to the international problem of plastic in the ocean and the overuse of plastics generally, especially single-use plastic. Even the supermarkets are waking up to the fact that much of their plastic wrapping is unnecessary.
It takes publicity like this to make us realise just how many plastic articles we all take for granted. I wonder, for example, just how many plastic patio chairs and tables there are scattered across the globe?
In view of this raised awareness, it seems a little ironic that outside what is now to be known as Oban Retail Park, the life-enhancing trees and shrubs have been removed and replaced by grass. Not real grass, unfortunately, but the plastic variety which needs no mowing. What will be next? Plastic trees which will make leaf-sweeping a thing of the past?