Plastic in our water isn’t going away

Dear Editor:I read the recent commentary in VTDigger by Peggy Stevens, which barely scratches the surface of the issue. We are facing a problem with no solution. Plastics are already in our air, soil and water and will remain there for up to 1,000 years. They are being consumed by every living thing on Earth, from zooplankton in the Arctic to the food we eat. Plastics flow in the ground like ink in water. One only has to look at Bennington — where a former Teflon plant contaminated d