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We recommend that you read the following articles to begin to understand the impact that wasted plastic and petroleum products are having on our sphere. We believe that every problem has a solution, so we have divided these news articles into two separate categories: PROBLEMS and SOLUTIONS PROBLEMS: Articles to raise your awareness! PLASTIC POISONING WORLD'S SEAS: Microscopic particles of plastic are poisoning the oceans UK: Reports that small plastic pellets called "mermaids' tears", which are the result of industry and domestic waste, have spread across the world's seas. Read more PLASTIC WASTE CREATING OCEAN SIZED CRISIS: SANTA CRUZ -- While most people seem to appreciate the beauty of the sea, many treat it like a huge garbage dump. This behavior is building up a toxic amount of plastics in the ocean that could one day endanger the sea and humanity itself. Read more PLASTIC BOTTLES PILE UP AS MOUNTAINS OF WASTE: The biggest growth in bottled beverages isn't beer or soft drinks or juices. It's tasteless, colorless and sugarless water. And while that can mean fewer cavities and slimmer waistlines, it irritates Patricia Franklin to no end. Read more UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF HYPERHYDRATION: It’s easy to find, in the mightily expanding iconography of American waste, the monumental (a ziggurat of flattened cars), the sinister (ocher sludge foaming on a riverbank) and the sublime (a plastic bag fluttering in a Japanese maple). The empty bottle and crushed aluminum can are none of these. They are almost too commonplace to notice.Read more SOLUTIONS: CALIFORNIANS AGAINST WASTE: Plastic is ubiquitous and everlasting. The fastest growing component of California's solid waste stream, and the number one category of material found littered on beaches and roadsides. Read more THE INTERNATIONAL PLASTICS TASK FORCE: the International Plastics Task Force, a diverse and committed network of activists, waste management specialists and Non Governmental Organizations world wide.Read more PLASTICS RESOURCE: Green living can start indoors by choosing recycled plastic products, finding new and creative uses for old items, and cutting back our use of natural resources.Read more EARTH 911: The Nations Premier Environmental Resource.Read more BACK TO TOP
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We recommend that you read the following articles to begin to understand the impact that wasted plastic and petroleum products are having on our sphere. We believe that every problem has a solution, so we have divided these news articles into two separate categories:
PROBLEMS and SOLUTIONS

PROBLEMS: Articles to raise your awareness!

seal suffocation

PLASTIC POISONING WORLD'S SEAS:
Microscopic particles of plastic are poisoning the oceans

UK: Reports that small plastic pellets called "mermaids' tears", which are the result of industry and domestic waste, have spread across the world's seas. Read more

PLASTIC WASTE CREATING OCEAN SIZED CRISIS:
SANTA CRUZ -- While most people seem to appreciate the beauty of the sea, many treat it like a huge garbage dump. This behavior is building up a toxic amount of plastics in the ocean that could one day endanger the sea and humanity itself. Read more

PLASTIC BOTTLES PILE UP AS MOUNTAINS OF WASTE:
The biggest growth in bottled beverages isn't beer or soft drinks or juices. It's tasteless, colorless and sugarless water. And while that can mean fewer cavities and slimmer waistlines, it irritates Patricia Franklin to no end. Read more

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF HYPERHYDRATION:
It’s easy to find, in the mightily expanding iconography of American waste, the monumental (a ziggurat of flattened cars), the sinister (ocher sludge foaming on a riverbank) and the sublime (a plastic bag fluttering in a Japanese maple). The empty bottle and crushed aluminum can are none of these. They are almost too commonplace to notice.Read more

SOLUTIONS:

glacier

CALIFORNIANS AGAINST WASTE:
Plastic is ubiquitous and everlasting. The fastest growing component of California's solid waste stream, and the number one category of material found littered on beaches and roadsides. Read more

THE INTERNATIONAL PLASTICS TASK FORCE:
the International Plastics Task Force, a diverse and committed network of activists, waste management specialists and Non Governmental Organizations world wide.Read more

PLASTICS RESOURCE:
Green living can start indoors by choosing recycled plastic products, finding new and creative uses for old items, and cutting back our use of natural resources.Read more

EARTH 911:
The Nations Premier Environmental Resource.Read more