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Happy America Recycles Day!

November 15, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft 1 Comment

Did you know that November 15th is America Recycles Day? It’s one more way to raise awareness about recycling and remind people to recycle every day of the year. And it’s the perfect time to expand your recycling consciousness. Instead of just focusing on recycling aluminum cans, newspapers, junk mail, plastic bottles and other items… [read more]

Filed Under: Earth musings Tagged With: marine debris, ocean trash, plastic, plastic bag, pollution, recycle

California plastic bag ban didn’t happen

September 9, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft Leave a Comment

Alas, the California State Legislature failed to get their act together and pass a state-wide ban on single-use plastic bags. AB 298 stalled in the State Senate Appropriations committee. I’m guessing most of you already figured this out because there hasn’t been any mention of a plastic bag ban in the news, but I still… [read more]

Filed Under: Ocean pollution Tagged With: marine debris, ocean trash, plastic, plastic bag, pollution

Help ban plastic bags in California!

August 30, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft Leave a Comment

Tomorrow (or today if you are reading this on Friday, August 31st) is the last day for California’s State Senate to approve a state-wide ban on single-use plastic bags. Please call your State Senator’s office and ask them to vote YES on AB 298 and make this happen! If the State Senate passes the bill… [read more]

Filed Under: Ocean pollution, Say Something Tagged With: action alert, marine debris, ocean trash, plastic, plastic bag, pollution

Oceans of garbage means plastic for dinner

July 26, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft Leave a Comment

Here is another great infographic by mastersdegree.net, which seemed extremely appropriate to post after writing about the Risso’s dolphin that died from eating too many plastic bags. All the plastic entering our oceans is completely disrupting the food chain and it’s inevitable that we will be eating plastic too. This graphic does a nice job… [read more]

Filed Under: Ocean pollution Tagged With: marine debris, ocean trash, plastic, plastic bag, pollution

Risso’s dolphin: death by plastic bags

July 24, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft 2 Comments

Here is another photo featuring plastic bags from a stomach, this time from the stomach of a Risso’s dolphin. Dr. Alexandros Frantzis, Scientific Director at the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute in Greece sent me this photo and provided this explanation: “The photo shows the large quantity and size (the meter-tape used as scale is 2… [read more]

Filed Under: Dolphins, Ocean pollution Tagged With: cetacean, dolphin, marine debris, ocean trash, plastic, plastic bag, risso's dolphin

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