I’m going to think big about the number of people who read this blog post today and think small about the number of people who will reach zero waste. Let’s say, out of 10,000 people who read this post, 100—or 1 percent—reduce their waste to essentially zero for a year.The average American produces over 4.4 … Continue reading Why you should go Zero-Waste
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Death of Sea Animals Due to Plastic Pollution
A whale found in the Philippines died because it had eaten 88 pounds of plastic trash, scientists report.The D'Bone Collector Museum, a non-governmental organization that collects and preserves dead animals, found the dead 15.4-foot whale on Saturday. A necropsy revealed its stomach was packed with multiple shopping bags, 16 rice sacks and four banana plantation-style bags.Because of the … Continue reading Death of Sea Animals Due to Plastic Pollution
How Our Plastic Kills Birds
98 percent of albatross eat plastic. Plastic may fill up the stomach, then, there is no more place for food and water and the animal dies. Sometimes plastic can perforate the internal organs, and then the animal dies in agony and suffering. Finally, plastic can carry a deadly collection of toxins into the animal. And then the animal dies. 40 … Continue reading How Our Plastic Kills Birds
The Reality of The Buildup of Our Trash
Instead, we found whole piles of garbage people had left behind on purpose!We didn’t find the occasional can or bottle sitting in the sand ~ we found carefully stacked cases of empty beverage containers that people were too lazy, indolent, or ignorant to take with them when they left.We didn’t find isolated cigarette butts here and there, we … Continue reading The Reality of The Buildup of Our Trash
Why Banning Plastic Bags Is Beneficial
But such public-awareness campaigns can take on a life of their own, and blind us to the real source of the global problem. Single-use plastic-bag bans, drinking-straw bans and elaborate container-deposit schemes are all examples of policies that mix high visibility with scant global impact. Policymakers and legislators in the developed world may favour these … Continue reading Why Banning Plastic Bags Is Beneficial
A Cost-Effective Way to Reduce Plastic Use
Alternatively, a cost-effective way to improve this lack of sustainable thinking is through education. It’s not good enough that annually only 14% of plastics waste is recycled, leaving 54% to be dumped on landfill or incinerated and the remaining 32% left to pollute the ecosystem. Promoting the 3-Rs of ‘reduce-reuse-recycle’ can have a large-scale impact … Continue reading A Cost-Effective Way to Reduce Plastic Use
How Does Plastic Pollution Affect Our Food Sources and Food Chain?
As plastic breaks down into small micro plastic particles it spreads throughout the ecosystem and becomes mixed in with our soil. The chlorine plastic adds dangerous chemicals to the crops we grow which becomes part of the food chain. These plastic particles can also absorb from sea water pollutants, and when consumed by animals and … Continue reading How Does Plastic Pollution Affect Our Food Sources and Food Chain?
What is Plastic Pollution?
Plastic pollution can be hard to understand. Modern life is filled with plastic products, but society has lost control of how much we use. An abundance of plastic can lead to significant problems in our world. This video gives a good explanation of what plastic pollution is and how it is affecting our world. It … Continue reading What is Plastic Pollution?
How Plastic Pollution is affecting our Marine Ecosystem
Plastic pollution has many effects on the ocean. Plastic consists of very large molecules that have not been implicated into environmental pollution. This means that plastic can take decades to about a thousand years to decompose and 8.3 billion metric tons of trash have been produced and 6.3 billion metric tons of it, or about … Continue reading How Plastic Pollution is affecting our Marine Ecosystem
How Does Plastic Pollution Affect Climate Change?
Our population uses tons and tons of plastic every year as one of our main resources. As this plastic decomposes, not only does it take almost 5,000 years to deteriorate, but it will also give off methane gas. Methane gas increases the rate of climate change because methane makes up 20 percent of green house … Continue reading How Does Plastic Pollution Affect Climate Change?
Plastic Pollution Sucks 