Dubbo Photo News 08.07.2021

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MICROMADNESS

By YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY IN the hands of local Phil Priest, pictured during Clean Up Australia Day, are visible bits of plastic fished out of the Macquarie River or from its banks. It’s tinier pieces of plastic called microplastics however which can be so small as to be almost invisible which are now found in the food chain and, at the end of last year, in unborn babies. The dangers of microplastics is the reason Wambangalang Environment Education Centre, Western Paddlers, Dubbo Environment Group, the Dragon Boaters and the Dubbo RiverCare Group have signed on with the Australian Microplastic Assessment Project (AUSMAP) to conduct a local study and attempt to understand the scale of this pollution in our local environment. PHOTO: DUBBO PHOTO NEWS/EMY LOU

OUR PLASTIC SINS Showing the way: Students from Carlton House Child Care Centre and Preschool are getting in on the act by refusing to use plastic plates or cups. PHOTO:

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