San Francisco on Track to Become Zero Waste City

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San Francisco on Track to Become Zero Waste City Each year, Americans throw away about 250 million tons of garbage. That’s roughly four pounds per person per day. You can find all manner of trash in a landfill, old bent …

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Plastic Ocean ~ Captain Charles Moore

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How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans In 2009, a U.N. joint commission estimated that 6.4 million …

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MIDWAY – A Film By Chris Jordan

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The MIDWAY film project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies …

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Please… Rethink Plastic

As you all know, I am an avid supporter of Plastic Pollution Coalition. I do my part by buying as little plastic as possible, I do not drink bottled water, and all the plastic that we do use in our …

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Keep Coca-Cola’s Plastic OUT Of the Grand Canyon

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There were meaningful plans brewing for America’s most iconic national park before Coca-Cola stepped in to protect its own interests. The National Parks Service was weeks away from finalizing plans that would have eliminated the sale of plastic water bottles …

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California Attorney General Sues Companies Over False Biodegradable Claims

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LOS ANGELES — The California attorney general’s office on Wednesday sued three companies over allegations they misled consumers by marketing plastic water bottles as biodegradable. The lawsuit – said to be the first government action to enforce the state’s environmental …

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Environmental Group Sues Glacier for Consumer Fraud

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Glacier Water Services, the largest seller in California and the U.S. of filtered water from vending machines, claims its machines dispense chemical-free drinking water. But the first statewide tests of vended water for chemical contaminants found that one-third of Glacier …

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Plastic Pollution – Can we make a difference?

Plastic is forever Plastic creates toxic pollution at every stage of its existence: manufacture, use, and disposal. Plastic is a material that the Earth cannot digest. Every bit of plastic that has ever been created still exists, including the small …

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Humpback Whale Shows AMAZING Appreciation After Being Freed From Nets

Michael Fishbach, co-founder of The Great Whale Conservancy (GWC), narrates his encounter with a young humpback whale entangled in local fishing nets. At first, the animal appeared to be dead, yet Fishbach investigated and quickly discovered that the poor creature …

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Plastic – A Cancer In Our Environment

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Plastic – A Cancer In Our Environment- Florida Keys Wildlife Rescue Silently spreading, leaching toxins, maiming and killing, plastics, the darling of modern society because of their versatility and heretofore low cost, are beginning to show their true colors. Derived …

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Dire forecast of marine life catastrophe – San Francisco Chronicle

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The world’s oceans are degenerating far faster than predicted and marine life is facing extinction due to a range of human impacts – from overfishing to climate change – a report compiled by international scientists warned Tuesday. The cumulative impact …

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ARE YOU STILL DRINKING BOTTLED WATER?

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Contestant #1 in our blog contest: Article by Jay Glasgow 60+ Million Plastic Bottles enter  our Oceans, Bays & Rivers every year!     Monday, February 21, 2011 Jay Glasgow Drinking Water Containers – Fashionable & Eco-friendly? You would think there’s not …

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Chemicals In Your Water That Can Make You Fat!

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A VERY interesting article hit cyberspace this week on http://www.wowowow.com/, identifying a class of chemicals in your water that can make you fat! On May 11, the White House announced it was targeting a new threat to America’s health and …

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The Perils of Plastic – Time.com

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The Perils of Plastic Young children are subjected to plastics in their every day life such as eating utensils, plates, bowls that might contain dangerous toxins. Since World War II, production of industrial chemicals has risen rapidly, and the U.S. …

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