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Plastic Pollution Prevention ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, pollution, plastic, habitat, nature, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 45 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Plastic is not fantastic! We must find a solution to plastic pollution! Why? Because all plastic that makes its way into our oceans will alter the natural state of ecosystems and harm wildlife. An estimated one million seabirds and 100,000 whales,
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Scientists Find 'Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch'
Environment  (tags: Pacific Ocean, garbage patch, plastic, pollution )

Lone
- 122 days ago - sciencedaily.com
On the Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition (SEAPLEX), researchers got the first detailed view of plastic debris floating in a remote ocean region
17 comments
Pledge and Make a Difference By Cutting Plastic Bags Out of Your Life ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, plastic, pollution, habitat, protection, humans, wildlife )

Cher
- 189 days ago - globalwarming.change.org
BYOB - in other words Bring Your Own Bag with you the grocery store, farmers market, and retail stores. Not only will you be reducing the amount of plastic you are consuming but you will be showing fellow shoppers, and store owners how easy it is to
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Find Ways to Stop Using Plastic ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, plastic, pollution, humans, nature, wildlife, protection )

Cher
- 190 days ago - change.org
Most of us are aware of the benefits of reusable bags, but plastic is still a huge part of everyday life. Plastic is convenient and cheap, but it harms the environment and wildlife in countless ways. Not to mention the toxins we absorb when using it in
9 comments
Stop Drinking Bottled Water ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, pollution, bottled water, plastic, habitat, protection, nature )

Cher
- 217 days ago - change.org
What wastes up to 1.5 millions tons of plastic every year and requires up to 47 million gallons of oil per year to produce? Bottled water! This fact and more is taken from Chris Baskind's article Lighter Footstep: 5 Reasons Not to Drink Bottled Water.
12 comments
Plastic Ocean !
Environment  (tags: oceans, plastic )

Claudia
- 232 days ago - care2.com
For those who don't know about the state of the oceans.Plastic is only one of the problems,but a huge one !!!
17 comments
Ocean Taskforce: Toxic Plastics Killing Marine Life! TAKE ACTION!
Environment  (tags: plastic, garbage, pollution, killing marine life, animals, protection, wildlife, environment, destruction )

Cher
- 279 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The enormous stew of trash - which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers - floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man's land between San Francisco and Hawaii.
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The World's Dump: Ocean Garbage From Hawaii to Japan
Environment  (tags: plastic, oceans )

Ingrid
- 692 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.
12 comments
Impact on the Environment
Environment  (tags: environment, ecosystems, pollution, plastic, garbage, oceans )

Brian
- 717 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!!!
4 comments
Men's Razor Wins Useless Packaging Awards - Australia
Environment  (tags: australia, victoria, razor, packaging, plastic, gillette )

Chrissy
- 747 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
12 comments
Giant Garbage Patch Floating in Pacific : Science Technology
Environment  (tags: science, pollution, Garbage, Plastic, oceans )

Jonathan
- 801 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
30 comments
Plastic, Not Axes, Threatens Cork Forests
Environment  (tags: plastic, cork, forests, environmentalists, cork producers )

Sharon
- 875 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.
2 comments
Polymers Are Forever / Alarming Tales of a Most Prevalent and Problematic Substance - Orion Magazine
Environment  (tags: pollution, environment, ecosystems, plastic )

Larry
- 965 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.
6 comments
Ocean Debris: Habitat for Some, Havoc for Environment, Experts Say
Environment  (tags: pollution, plastic )

Mai
- 980 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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