December 1st, 2011 by Richard Lord
Jack Johnson sang at a concert and to school children about the environmental impact of single-use plastic bags in Rebecca Hosking‘s acclaimed film “Message in the Waves“. Jack Johnson & Kokua Hawaii Foundation encourage you to be plastic free.
July 3rd, 2011 by Scripps Institution of Oceanography
SEAPLEX researchers estimate tens of thousands of tons of debris annually ingested by fish in middle ocean depths of North Pacific Ocean The first scientific results from an ambitious voyage led by a group of graduate students from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego offer a stark view of human pollution and its […]
January 14th, 2011 by Richard Lord
October 13th, 2010 by Richard Lord
October 2nd, 2010 by Richard Lord
October 1st, 2010 by Richard Lord
The table of common plastics and their symbols is published in the Guidance on Applying the Waste Hierarchy Currently only Plastic No. 1 (PET, PETE) and Plastic No. 2 (HDPE) can be recycled at Guernsey’s Bring Banks. However a Guernsey recycling business is looking at the feasibility of recycling Plastic No. 5. Marks & Spencers […]
June 1st, 2010 by Richard Lord
No Plastic Day is a world wide event intended to bring awareness of the over-consumption of disposable plastic goods such as plastic bags and bottles. It is well known that there are floating islands of garbage in most of the world’s oceans. The huge amounts of plastic trash we all discard daily doesn’t decompose, doesn’t […]
August 19th, 2008 by Lindsay
Chris Denton and Lindsay de Sausmarez entered this film for the 2008 Straight 8 film Competition. This competition requires contestants to make a short film on one cartridge of super 8 mm film without editing. This super 8 film looks at how plastic bags and bottles are damaging the ecosystem. The film takes the form […]
February 19th, 2008 by Rosie
One hundred thousand animals die each year from plastic. After an animal dies from ingesting plastic the body decomposes and the plastic is then released back into the environment to kill another animal. 46,000 pieces of plastic debris floats on or just below the surface of every square mile of the world’s oceans. 47% of […]