Dianna Cohen explains the mission of the PPC, her role within the organization and why “cleaning up” the gyre is not a viable solution to the plastic pollution problem in part two of the “Beaches, People & Plastic” series.
Dianna Cohen, Plastic Pollution Coalition Co-Founder. Read More »
5gyres.org conduct research and communicate about the global impact of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans and employ strategies to eliminate the accumulation of plastic pollution in the 5 subtropical gyres.
Plastic, or food? from 5 Gyres on Vimeo.
Visit 5gyres.org information about Plastic Pollution Distribution.
5gyres.org: To understand the impact of plastic pollution. Read More »
A film on how to still be cheap and lazy now that the hippies are getting rid of our free trash bags with their Ban The Bag campaign.
Ban the Bag Hippy Movement Read More »
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces.
Annie Leonard and her Team are behind the movement “The Story of Stuff”, since the beginning of bottlesUp has found her as is one of our biggest motivations.
Annie Leonard interviewed by Stephen Colbert.
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Have you heard about the Pacific garbage patch or seen those pictures of birds on Midway Island that die with stomachs full of bottlecaps? This problem of plastic in our oceans is pretty serious. Here’s one way to help, and it’s pretty straightforward: Use less plastic.
