Recyclable or Not?

thought you might appreciate this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14967535

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From BBC:

A simple initiative in the Philippines is bringing a bit of brightness into the lives of the country's poorest people.

The project is called "Litre of Light", and the technology involved is just a plastic bottle filled with water.

It's an environmentally-friendly alternative to an electric light bulb, and it's virtually free.

Located in the North Pacific Ocean. Floating trash collects in a huge, slowly swirling bowl. Discovered in 1998. There are five different underwater 'patches' between Japan and North America.

The area is the world's LARGEST garbage dump. (About the size of Dallas, Texas).

The patch is made up of billions of tiny pieces of plastic, and it’s basically invisible unless you’re floating in it. While this might seem better, it’s actually much worse for the environment—and for you

Scientists working with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography recently studied small fish in the area and found that they eat as much as 24,000 tons of plastic waste each year.

The toxicity of plastic on this small scale escalates as it goes up the food chain...

Removing the plastic from the ocean would take 250 times the energy required to create it in the first place. Also, any attempt to collect it would do more damage to the fish and other living creatures than good. The only solution is PREVENTION.

Plastic is an enormous environmental problem as "Plastics, like diamonds, are forever".

For more information:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2011/0706/Pacific-Ocean-trash-patch-mystery-How-many-fish-eat-plastic

http://e360.yale.edu/digest/size_of_pacific_garbage_patch_is_grossly_exaggerated_new_study_says_/2741/

http://greener-me.tumblr.com/