there is no away

My friend Angus who runs a botanical recycling company always says that people think of him/binmen as the waste fairies - 'we just magically make their rubbish go away'. My brother came up with another gem of, possibly borrowed, wisdom...."there is no away" - as in 'just throw it away'. Indeed. The poor beach is testament to that. The idea that the sea will consume and devour our rubbish is in fact rubbish. The last few days have been blissfully bright and clear and sunny and it has thrown the problem into sharp relief. Whilst a lot of the muck has come from passing boats, too much of it has been obviously discarded by people using the beach on the first warm sunny weekend of the year. The amount of detritus on the tideline has reached epic and disturbing proportions. I promised not to preach but really....there is no away unless it's in the bin. And even then it's got a long way to go before a proper away.