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Great Pacific Garbage Patch news…

As I blogged about a couple weeks ago, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch continues to swallow the trash (mostly plastic) that we throw away at an unsustainable rate. NPR recently reported on a pair of scientists who crafted a boat from 15,000 (!) used plastic bottles. These guys, Joel Paschal and Marcus Erikson, are sailing [...]

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Plastics, like diamonds, are forever

We live in a disposable culture. That much is clear to the most hardcore consumer, and even celebrated by some companies. When do consumption and its bastard child, disposal, become disgusting enough to be intolerable to reasonable people? The above headline comes from a report that Capt. Charles Moore, founder of the Algalita Marine [...]

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