03/05/2026
🚨INHUMANE — THERE IS NO AWAY 🗑️
🥤A bottle for a life — 2/3 series
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This didn’t happen near a city.
This was deep inside the Kruger National Park.
After seeing the lion cub with the KFC box, my mind went back to this sighting from a few years ago.
We were in a dry riverbed, far from everything. One of those places where you feel completely immersed in nature, where everything seems untouched and exactly as it should be.
We were watching a troop of baboons spread out across the riverbed — some grooming, some playing, others just enjoying the moment.
Then a few of the younger ones got curious about something.
Plastic bottles.
The bottles didn’t come from there. At some point, when the river was flowing, they must have been carried from somewhere else, travelling who knows how far before ending up right there, in the middle of a national park.
And this is the part we don’t see enough.
What we throw “away” doesn’t disappear. It moves. It travels. It accumulates… until it reaches places we imagine to be untouched.
We use plastic for a few minutes, and then it stays in the environment for hundreds of years. And in that time, it becomes dangerous — ingested, broken down into microplastics that leak into the soil, mistaken for food, or simply interfering with animals that are just being curious.
Animals don’t know what it is.
They don’t know it can harm them.
Sometimes it even smells or tastes like food.
So they interact with it.
This is not about being perfect or judging anyone.
I’ve changed many of my own habits over the years, and I know it doesn’t happen overnight. But it starts with awareness, and with small choices that, over time, become part of who we are.
One small action at a time.
Because those small choices don’t stay small!
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🪄If you had to give up single-use plastic, where would you start?
Plastic bottles, plastic bags, takeaway containers, coffee cups, straws…
Take the pledge — even just one change.
Let me know in the comments 💚
