Our Oceans are Fouled with Plastic - & it's a killer!

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	Our Oceans are Fouled with Plastic - & it's a killer!

bs1999bs

7-1-2007 6:46 AM

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activism, conservation, environment, environmental action, nature, our future, planet earth, society, sustainability

bs1999bs says:

Plastic is causing huge problems to our environment and our use of it is increasing expotentially. We must fine some answers!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f5ae6ba7-a786-4b93-9840-4a16bb0d1452/901EE549-51DE-4CF8-8A66-8A9BD9CAFAB9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.culturechange.org/Petroleum&Plastics.html" href="http://www.culturechange.org/Petroleum&Plastics.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.culturechange.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.culturechange.org/Petroleum&Plastics.html">Marine trash, mainly plastic, is killing more than a million seabirds
and 100,000 mammals and sea turtles each year</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.culturechange.org/Petroleum&Plastics.html">Plastic bags, bottle tops and polystyrene foam coffee cups are often
found in the stomachs of dead sea lions, dolphins, sea turtles and
others. The implications have many at the conference concerned. Last
April, Dutch scientists released a report on litter in the North Sea
and found that fulmars, a type of seagull, had an average of 30 pieces
of plastic in their stomachs.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.culturechange.org/Petroleum&Plastics.html">Macdonald, who is also an underwater filmmaker, said he has seen
albatross parents fly huge distances to feed their young a deadly diet
of plastic bottle caps, lighters and light sticks.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.culturechange.org/Petroleum&Plastics.html">Most plastics don't biodegrade. Unless removed, they'll remain in the sea 
for hundreds of years, breaking up into ever-smaller particles</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.culturechange.org/Petroleum&Plastics.html">It's just dawning on people that the oceans are
in deep trouble."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.culturechange.org/Petroleum&Plastics.html">Our ability to understand
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