Here’s a cool video on a water wheel-style boat that cruises around picking up trash, mostly plastic waste, from our harbors. If this generates awareness of the problem, that’s great. But I’ve become convinced that the only real place to …
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Warning About Waste Plastic Is a Truly Pathetic Piece of Irony
The translation: Ocean of plastic…..Each year we add 8 million tons of plastic to our oceans. The problem, of course, is the packaging for the magazine is only going to add more.
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The Plastic Age Is a Feature of the American Zeitgeist
The illustration here comes from “The Story of Stuff” project, whose efforts in environmental and social justice are legendary. This civilization is having the devil’s own time dealing with waste plastic. There are now 4 trillion pieces of plastic in …
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