Last month when I wrote about our ‘broken’ recycling system, I also encouraged everyone to resolve to refuse single-use plastic bags and plastic water bottles.   Why? Because plastic is having a continued negative impact on our environment and is affecting our land, water and air in ways that are a danger to every living thing, including us.  We now have five gyres (massive, circular current systems) in our oceans that are full of floating microplastics, nanoplastics and microfibers; these are the particles of plastic left when items break apart.  It is estimated that by 2050 plastic will outweigh the fish...