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Ruidoso News joins TerraCycle initiative
Posted on April 16, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifeRuidoso News joins TerraCycle initiative. As we see the endless debris fields in our oceans, my heart grew heavy at our boundless waste, especially non-biodegradable plastic waste," Mohr said. "This waste not only harms many animal species, it interrupts the...
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Plastic Bands are strangling Seals and Sea Lions – USA
Posted on February 14, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifeStrangling Seals and Sea Lions Young seal and sea lion pups tend to play with marine debris, not knowing the harm they can cause. Packing bands are sometimes found in the marine environment tangled up in a big...
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Top 10 Plastic Marine Litter Prevention Actions
Posted on February 11, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifeTop Ten Actions If only we could get governments and corporations to follow these actions.
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Australian waters polluted by harmful tiny plastics
Posted on November 28, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic & Wildlife, Plastic Waste NewsAustralian waters polluted by harmful tiny plastics. Our overall mean sea surface plastic concentration was 4,256.4 plastic pieces per km2. This mean value is higher than those reported for other regions, such as the Caribbean Sea (1,414 pieces...
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Plastic Bag Bans Are Not Enough – USA
Posted on November 8, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic & Wildlife, Plastic Waste NewsPlastic Bag Bans Are Not Enough | UCLA Inst. of the Environment and Sustainability. Plastic bag bans are not enough to save the oceans from a growing tide...
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Plastic and politics: how bureaucracy is failing our forgotten wildlife
Posted on March 11, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifeGreenpeace Australia Pacific » Blog Archive » Plastic and politics: how bureaucracy is failing our forgotten wildlife. Accumulations of rubbish in the North Pacific Gyre were first noticed 20 years ago. Nicknamed the “Pacific Garbage Patch”, this area...
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Plastic in Remote Pacific Island
Posted on March 4, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifeThis video is quite heart wrenching. It is short and every one should see it. It is a very graphic illustration of the damage and the horrible deaths we are causing innocent wildlife 1000's of miles away because of...
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Unilever to phase out plastic microbeads from facial scrubs
Posted on January 14, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic & Wildlife, Plastic Waste NewsUnilever to phase out plastic microbeads from facial scrubs | Environment | guardian.co.uk. UK marine conservation groups are claiming victory after Unilever agreed to phase out miniscule plastic...
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Plastic debris reaches Southern Ocean, previously thought to be pristine
Posted on October 6, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifePlastic debris reaches Southern Ocean, previously thought to be pristine | Environment | guardian.co.uk. The fatal impact of plastic pollutants on the marine environment has been widely observed, as birds and fish regularly consume waste products, which can be easily...
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Plastic pollution invades the last frontier
Posted on October 6, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifePlastic pollution invades the last frontier - The West Australian. American oceanographer Charles Moore has labelled plastic pollution as a bigger problem than climate change, and one that must be fixed. "It's murderous to marine ecosystems. It is acting as both...
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