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Plastic bag-free Coles Bay, Tasmania

Plastic bag-free Coles Bay, Tasmania

We use most plastic bags for just minutes, but they take 15 to 1000 years to break down. Besides landfill space, they're responsible for animal deaths, litter and growing continents of floating marine garbage, not to mention the fact that most are made from petroleum. In 2002, Ireland levied ... read more

9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

A plastic Chernobyl: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch... and our collective deplastification

Way out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a thousand miles out from the coast of California, floats a continent-sized area of garbage. Those plastic bags that blow off landfills or bottles that make their way into waterways eventually end up in the ocean and places like the Great ... read more

2 years ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

 

 

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