<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/03eaf408-5004-4176-a05b-b32df1eb9fda/CFFCCFC1-FC60-450F-858E-53D6623B4420/" 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.morsbags.com/html/about.html" href="http://www.morsbags.com/html/about.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.morsbags.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.morsbags.com/html/about.html">A young female minke whale was washed up in Normandy, France, on April 6th (my birthday), 2002. These were the contents of her stomach:</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.morsbags.com/html/about.html"><UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">1 plastic-aluminum crisp packet</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">2 English supermarket bags</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">7 various colored dustbin bag bits</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">7 transparent plastic bags</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">1 plastic food wrapper</LI> </UL></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.morsbags.com/html/about.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.morsbags.com/img/E26E8D7C-FDBC-4314-9649-FF8C19DBA6B0" alt="" /></div></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.morsbags.com/html/about.html"><P><STRONG>Plastic bags in water are serial killers.</STRONG> They are eaten by marine wildlife, which often mistake plastic bags for jellyfish. The fish, whale turtle or bird dies and decomposes around the bag. The bag floats off, ready for its next victim.</P></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.morsbags.com/html/about.html"><P>No one knows how long these treacherous plastic bags take to biodegrade. Humans have only been using them for 30 years, but they're already covering the planet and globally we consume 1 million plastic bags per minute. They photodegrade (break down into smaller and smaller toxic bits) and wildlife accidentally ingest the bite-sized pieces.</P></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.morsbags.com/html/about.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.morsbags.com/img/DD9BEB0F-0434-42A0-8247-8AC92426CFA6" alt="" /></div></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.morsbags.com/html/about.html"><P>I would love it if people would think to bring reusable bags.</P></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.morsbags.com/html/about.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.morsbags.com/img/BF6557A1-826A-4EC9-A2C9-4D624BE93E9F" alt="Morsbags.com" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CFFCCFC1-FC60-450F-858E-53D6623B4420/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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