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Article:
No More Plastic Bags
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Published:9/29/2008 by New York Times
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Submitted by:Frank K 6 days ago
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Categories: Living Green & Waste Management
Article Details:   Westport, Conn., became the latest of a handful of communities to ban some plastic bags. The bags, which have only a brief, useful life, can survive forever in landfills and are of enormous concern to not only environmentalists but local officials who are running out of places to put their trash. Americans use and dispose of at least 100 billion bags every year. And about only 5 percent of all plastic bags are recycled nationwide.
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Group finds 6 million pounds of trash on world's beaches - H. Josef Hebert (AP)
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Published:4/15/2008
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Submitted by:Frank K 173 days ago
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Categories: Living Green & Waste Management
Article Details:   A report by the Ocean Conservancy catalogues nearly 7.2 million items (6 million pounds) that were collected by volunteers on a single day in September as they combed beaches and rocky shorelines in 76 countries. The volunteers collected nearly 2.3 million cigarette butts, filters and cigar tips; 587,827 bags; more than 1.7 million food wrappers, containers, lids, cups, plates and eating utensils; and nearly 1.2 million bottles and beverage cans.
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Fact on Living Green 3/3/2008
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Published:3/3/2008
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Submitted by:Frank K 216 days ago
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Categories: Living Green & Waste Management
Fact Details:     In the U.S. we generate 300 pounds of packaging waste per person each year and 32% of the entire domestic waste stream consists of containers and packaging.
Oceans And Seas
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Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we? - Susan Casey, Best Life Magazine
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Published:10/25/2007
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Submitted by:Frank K 219 days ago
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Categories: Oceans And Seas & Waste Management
Article Details:   A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility...and worse. It is dubbed the "Eastern Garbage Patch" by scientists.



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