While most environmentally conscious people know that no purchase, especially from SaveOn, is without it’s consequences, in the case of Oil of Olay, they’ve found a surprising way to keep the price down, and still get those spa results. The latest incarnation of Olay products, an ancient in the world of new beauty, are shower [...]
Proctor & Gamble: Adding A Touch Of Plastic To Your Next Seafood Dinner
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Plastic ocean: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
by SUSAN CASEY
A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility…and worse…
LONG BEACH, California (4 Nov 2007) — Fate can take strange forms, and so perhaps it does not seem unusual that [...]
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Plastic Turning Vast Area of Ocean into Ecological Nightmare
CHARLES MOORE Santa Barbara News - Press 27 oct 02
An albatross carcass shows how much plastic the great birds can ingest from the Pacific Ocean.
There is a large part of the central Pacific Ocean that no one ever visits and only a few ever pass through. Sailors avoid it like the plague for it [...]
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Plague of Plastic Chokes the Seas
LOS ANGELES TIMES
By Kenneth R. Weiss, Times Staff Writer
August 2, 2006
MIDWAY ATOLL — The albatross chick jumped to its feet, eyes alert and focused. At 5 months, it stood 18 inches tall and was fully feathered except for the fuzz that fringed its head.
All attitude, the chick straightened up and clacked its beak at [...]
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Drowning in an Ocean of Plastic
Wired
The United Nations has turned its attention to the oceans for World Environment Day, and one of the main evildoers is a familiar one — plastic.
Marine trash, mainly plastic, is killing more than a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals and sea turtles each year, said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in a statement.
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