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“Klavitter has calculated that albatross feed thei...

“Klavitter has calculated that albatross feed their chicks about 5 tons of plastic a year at Midway”

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Posted on 8th August 2006 Details

“Mankind's appetite for the plastic bag is deeply ...

“Mankind's appetite for the plastic bag is deeply daunting. It is estimated that one million are used every minute - their average working life just 12 minutes before they are discarded”

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Posted on 1st May 2007 Details

“Every year, Americans throw away some 100 billion...

“Every year, Americans throw away some 100 billion plastic bags after they've been used to transport a prescription home from the drugstore or a quart of milk from the grocery store. It's equivalent to dumping nearly 12 million barrels of oil.”

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Posted on 13th August 2007 Details

“it is a serious distortion to imply, as the top t...

“it is a serious distortion to imply, as the top ten lists usually do, that there is any equivalence between these lifestyle preferences and the serious decisions that really reduce emissions”

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Posted on 19th September 2007 Details

A visit to the Pacific's toxic garbage island.

A visit to the Pacific's toxic garbage island, where our plastic goes to die/kill. It's a 12 part video so I'm not embedding it, just start with the link and you'll see the rest.

Linked on 27th April 2009 Details

A visit to the Pacific’s toxic garbage island, whe...

A visit to the Pacific’s toxic garbage island, where our plastic goes to die/kill. It’s a 12 part video so I’m not embedding it, just start with the link and you’ll see the rest.

Linked on 27th April 2009 Details

How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades.

Recycling delays, rather than avoids, final disposal.

An in-depth look at our humongous plastic problem. Long read but worth it.

Linked on 2nd July 2020 Details

Plastic Recycling is a scam.

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I never knew the plastics industry had co-opted the recycling symbol in order to reduce people's image of plastic as an environmental issue. Bleak but not particularly surprising.

Added on Dec 19, 2020 Details