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The Accidental Environmentalist | August 3rd 2008
During a recent trip to the gym, DG and I discussed my recent post about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP, but known affectionately by readers of the AE as the Garbage Gyre), and we decided that what was needed was to band together a couple of t read more
Trash vortex
The Accidental Environmentalist | August 3rd 2008
I finally connected with Jane Genovese of Live the Solution.com and she stated that the photograph of the poster from Fremantle was not hers, either. Too bad! I thought I'd solved the riddle.Anyway, so I was hunting around on the internets for anot read more
Storm Drain Trash
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | July 22nd 2008 by Barbara Mathieson
Yesterday in Albuquerque, we had an afternoon thunderstorm. Afterward on our way to dinner, we found this street-wide storm drain with lots of debris. This is one reason why we should not litter. Much of the trash enters the storm drain and makes it read more
Too Much Plastic Bottle Trash
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | July 19th 2008 by Barbara Mathieson
During my short walk this morning, I picked up 9 plastic bottles in the Boone Trace and Lexington Point subdivisions. Most of the plastic bottles were on the Lexington Point playground. The trash can at the playground was virtually empty. If you can& read more
Plastic Trash in Radnor Lake
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | July 14th 2008 by Barbara Mathieson
I’ve mentioned many times that Radnor Lake is my most favorite place in the world. We go there a lot to reconnect with nature and with God. We visited yesterday morning for our spiritual renewal. After the heavy overnight rain, the lake was ver read more
Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | July 6th 2008 by Barbara Mathieson
Two men are sailing to Hawaii on a boat made of junk through a pile of junk in this story. Their blog is at junkraft.com. read more
Happy Birthday!
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | June 25th 2008 by Barbara Mathieson
Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of PlanetTrash: The Earth is Not a Trash Can. This image started the blog. When we spotted this overturned jaccuzi abandoned on the side of Newsom Station Road, something stirred us to fight the litter accumulatin read more
Marketing Hype is Trash
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | June 24th 2008 by Barbara Mathieson
No kudos to Deer Park Bottled Spring Water for its New Eco-Shape Bottle from us. Deer Park claims that the plastic bottle has “an average of 30% less plastic to be easier on the environment.” Deer Park, I picked up your plastic bottle fro read more
What We Leave Behind
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | June 22nd 2008 by Barbara Mathieson
I finished reading Fahrenheit 451 yesterday. Toward the end of the book, one of the characters quotes from his grandfather: Everyone must leave something behind when he dies…. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pai read more
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Averts An Environmental Near-Disa…
Hole In The Donut | June 22nd 2008 by BARBARA ANN WEIBEL
It’s the home stretch for me. I’ve sold my home on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and it’s due to close this coming Friday. Although all the big items have already been packed up and placed in storage, there was still food in th read more
The Plastic Scare and Baby Toys
Freestylin' | June 13th 2008 by Lisa
Well, folks. The Plastic Scare isn’t just a scare, it’s a nightmare reality. Sitting in the ocean right now (the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as it’s called) exists a mountain of plastics that will never, ever break down. Ever. W read more
Video of the big garbage patch in the middle of Pacific Ocean
Musings from a male knitter | June 10th 2008 by Thomas Laupstad
In the middle of the northern parts Pacific Ocean the currents create a big vortex where a lot of the trash the we dump into the ocean get trapped. This place has been dubbed as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” and there is even a Wikipe read more
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | June 6th 2008 by Barbara Mathieson
Thanks to the Sierra Club for providing the link to this video about Garbage Island. I just watched all twelve episodes plus the bonus feature on plastic and bisphenol A (we’re all gonna die from plastic). This video explains the Great Pacific read more
Commentary on Plastic Bags and the Oceans
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | April 9th 2008 by Barbara Mathieson
Here’s an article by Danny Westneat in the Seattle Times concerning a possible 20¢ charge for a plastic or paper bag. He quotes one of my heroes, Curt Ebbesmeyer, who coined the phrase, Great Pacific Garbage Patch: I figured if anyone would ju read more
TRASH ISLAND
less is more balanced | March 19th 2008 by lessismorebalanced
An oceanographer discovered a huge island of toxic trash in the Pacific Ocean a few years ago, lovingly referred to as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. One-fifth of it is made of trash from ships and oil platforms while the other four-fifths makes it read more
Plastic Continents on the Earth
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | February 26th 2008 by Barbara Mathieson
Watching the Altered Oceans videos last night made me cry. We’ve progressed from birds, strangled in six-pack rings, to young birds dying from eating a diet of plastic floating in our oceans. What do we do about plastic? Plastic simplifies our read more
Garbage Island Reaches Out to the World – Seoul, South Korea, A…
Future Feeds | February 19th 2008 by Ian Hristo
For the first time in its short history has the Great Pacific Garbage Patch reached out to the outside world for help. The island build on the huge patch of drifting garbage that gets collected by the North Pacific Gyre in the Pacific Ocean is runnin read more
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Growing at an Alarmingly Rate
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | February 11th 2008 by Barbara Mathieson
According to this article from www.iol.co.za, the GPGP is now half the size of the continental United States. Only months ago, it was the size of Texas. Here’s a frightening excerpt: Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer and a leading authority o read more
Another Great Idea from California
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | February 7th 2008 by Barbara Mathieson
From MontereyHerald.com: Styrofoam ‘to go’ boxes may go away if lawmakers follow green promotion Beach cleanup efforts conducted within the last year by the Surfrider Foundation demonstrate that polystyrene makes up a significant portio read more
Plastic Jesus and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | November 30th 2007 by Barbara Mathieson
We were somewhat taken by surprise when we saw the plastic illuminated nativity scene in front of our subdivision. Yes, the majority (including PlanetTrash) home owners are Christians, and we don’t want to get into the silliness over “Ha read more
More About Plastic Bags
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | November 2nd 2007 by Barbara Mathieson
Since PlanetTrash is over 50 years old, I read a daily newspaper. Glancing through the paper in the morning with a couple cups of coffee wakes me up. Plus I read about local news and sports. The crossword and cryptogram are my favorite parts. Here read more
Eco Geek on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Earth is Not a Trash Can | October 28th 2007 by Barbara Mathieson
Here’s a post worth repeating from EcoGeek: Pacific Ocean’s trash vortex keeps on churning But my favorite ultra-progressive, take-him-with-a-grain-of-salt columnist and uber-agitator, Mark Morford, is cracking me up. Today the San Francisco read more
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