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PLASTIC PLANET

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According to the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, there are places in our ocean where plastic outweighs zooplankton by 6 to 1.  Pretty scary.

Our easy-to-use plastic bags (and all kinds of other forms of the stuff that was hailed as the future in The Graduate) are a big culprit in the deaths of sea turtles, birds, and other marine creatures as while plastic almost never biodegrades, it does break down into little, easily ingestible bits.  Americans use 380 billion plastic bags every year.



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This page contains a single entry by Danielle published on July 1, 2008 11:25 AM.

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