The Truth About Plastic
Infographic: The Truth About Plastic, and it’s impact on our planet.
Every piece of plastic made still exist today.
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Source: Reusethisbag.com
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THE UNHAPPY TRUTH ABOUT SODA
It wasn’t so bad when soft drinks were the occasional treat.
But now sugary drinks are the number one source of calories in the American diet.
With one third of America overweight and another third obese, it’s a wonder
anyone is still swallowing what the soda companies are selling. Let’s drink more water, if is in our glass water bottles, even better!
Video Source: therealbears.org/
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Breast Cancer and Plastic Pollution – Jeanne Rizzo
This is the TED talk we want you to see this month – Jeanne Rizzo, the CEO of Breast Cancer Fund, speaks about the connection between plastic pollution and breast cancer. Take the time to click, watch and share. Jeanne’s talk is simply too important for every one of us.
Another reason we must stop the use of single-use plastic anything – our health matters more than convenience.
…”time past and we still didn’t know or maybe we didn’t want to know that we were creating a building blocks of cancer”…
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Dianna Cohen: Tough truths about plastic pollution
While a glass bottle can be a glass bottle again or can be used again, a plastic bottle can never be a plastic bottle again.” (Dianna Cohen)
Artist Dianna Cohen shares some tough truths about plastic pollution in the ocean and in our lives — and some thoughts on how to free ourselves from the plastic gyre.
Dianna Cohen co-founded the Plastic Pollution Coalition, which is working to help end our cycle of plastics use.
Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/dianna_cohen_tough_truths_about_plastic_pollution.html
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Plastic Shores Trailer
A non-profit educational film about the effects of plastic debris on our marine ecosystem
In the year 2010 global plastic production reached 300 million tonnes. A third of this was used in disposable packaging. In the United Kingdom, 3 million tonnes of plastic are thrown away every year, 1% of the total amount of all plastic manufactured on the planet.
But what happens to this plastic when it is thrown away? Most of it makes its way to landfill. Some goes to recycling or incineration. The rest escapes into our environment, and to the world’s oceans…and nobody knows how long it will stay there. Estimates range from decades to hundreds of thousands of years.
‘Plastic Shores’ is a documentary that explores how plastic affects the marine environment. Travelling from the International Marine Debris Conference in Hawai’i to the polluted Blue Flag beaches of Cornwall, the film reveals just how bad the problem of plastic debris is and how it harms aquatic life. There is now not a single beach or sea in the world that is not affected by plastic pollution and the problem is only increasing.
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