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Seabirds Are Eating Lots Of Plastic, And The Problem Is Getting Worse
A new study on seabirds has come to a disturbing conclusion: Their bellies are filled with plastic. Up to 90 per cent of marine birds alive today may have ingested plastic, and by 2050, that number could be as high as 95 per cent.
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The Crazy Story Of Hand-Making Skateboards From Garbage
Video: The frenetic editing of this video highlights the out of the box thinking that enabled Mac Premo and Sanford Shapes to create skateboards out of garbage. It’s a fun story that resulted in them repurposing leftover plastic buckets into perfectly awesome skateboard decks. The materials all come from the dumpster.
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Watch How New York’s Enormous Organic Garbage System Works
The process of throwing out garbage in New York City is much more complicated than any of the millions of people living there could ever realise. A mini-documentary by the New York Times does a full observation of the $US300 million dollar service top to bottom.
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There’s Garbage In The Deepest, Most Remote Parts Of The Ocean
Our planet’s oceans are huge and mysterious, and there are still stretches of the ocean floor that remain unexplored. But that doesn’t mean they’re pristine and untouched: a new study found even the deepest, most remote areas of the oceans contain man-made litter. As a species, we’re just a bunch of slobs.