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"Plastic Soup" Debris in Pacific Ocean: Here's Another Reason for Retailers to Charge for Plastic Bags.
Environment  (tags: plastic, plastic bags, environment, wildlife, water, oceans, nature, conservation, ecosystems, habitatdestruction, habitat, humans, pollution, research, protection )

Terrah
- 212 days ago - enn.com
The swirling debris of plastic trash in the Pacific Ocean has now grown to a size that is twice as large as the continental U.S. How do we know this? The Alguita Marine Research team just landed from a month-long tour of the area, known as the ..
The World's Dump: Ocean Garbage From Hawaii to Japan
Environment  (tags: plastic, oceans )

Ingrid
- 242 days ago - alternet.org
A "plastic soup" of floating waste in the Pacific Ocean now covers an area twice the size of the continental U.S.
Impact on the Environment
Environment  (tags: environment, ecosystems, pollution, plastic, garbage, oceans )

Plato
- 267 days ago - independent.com.mt
The world's oceans are being polluted by plastic waste to a degree never before realized. n the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in an area known as the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, lies a floating garbage patch of plastic twice the size of Britain!!!
Men's Razor Wins Useless Packaging Awards - Australia
Environment  (tags: australia, victoria, razor, packaging, plastic, gillette )

Chrissy
- 297 days ago - news.com.au
A RAZOR encased in plastic, cardboard and paper has been named as the worst offender for environmentally damaging packaging by Victoria's peak environment body. The Gillette Fusion razor, made by Proctor and Gamble, won Environment Victoria's Golden DUMP
Giant Garbage Patch Floating in Pacific : Science Technology
Environment  (tags: science, pollution, Garbage, Plastic, oceans )

Jonathan
- 352 days ago - earthtimes.org
An enormous island of trash twice the size of Texas is floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii California Coastal Commission in San Francisco said the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, has been growing a brisk rate si
Plastic, Not Axes, Threatens Cork Forests
Environment  (tags: plastic, cork, forests, environmentalists, cork producers )

Sharon
- 426 days ago - news.yahoo.com
TEMPIO PAUSANIA, Sardinia (Reuters) - If you buy a bottle of wine with a metal screw-top or a plastic cork, you won't just be thumbing your nose at tradition. You may also be dooming the world's cork forests.
Polymers Are Forever / Alarming Tales of a Most Prevalent and Problematic Substance - Orion Magazine
Environment  (tags: pollution, environment, ecosystems, plastic )

Larry
- 515 days ago - orionmagazine.org
All the plastic ever made, except for what has been incinerated, is still on Earth. It seems that plastic does not biodegrade. It does not go away. It goes, usually, to the oceans, where it will someday become part of the food chain.
Ocean Debris: Habitat for Some, Havoc for Environment, Experts Say
Environment  (tags: pollution, plastic )

Mai
- 530 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Look under a chunk of plastic afloat in the ocean and you're likely to spot a fish or two. Look inside the stomach of a dead albatross or sea turtle and you're likely to find chunks of plastic. So goes the paradoxical legacy of plastic debris in the ocean
   

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