Interested in an island vacation? How about a weekend on 100 million tons of plastic flotsam, more than five million square miles, the size of the United States, floating in an area known as the North Pacific gyre. You won't be without plastic water bottles!
1000 miles off the California coast, four major currents converge, trapping this plastic trash. Some of the trash floats on top of the water, some just below the surface, some far deeper in the ocean. Over time, the plastic trash breaks up so that you can't even see it. Fish and other marine life eat the plastic, dying after ingesting it. 100,000 marine mammals die each year from eating it. Dead albatross have been found full of colored bottle caps and disposable lighters.
Where has the junk come from? It is the product of fifty years of disposing of our plastic waste--from ships at sea, on the beach, escapees from garbage barges and landfills. 80% of the trash gets there from land, washing into rivers and streams from streets and highways.
Check out www.junkcraft.com
Make-Do.
Next time they ask you at the grocery store, "Paper or Plastic?" say "Neither."
Use cloth bags.
Or just carry it out in your hand.
Olivia
Make-Do
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hey olivia. love the blog. you can check out mine if you have time. i wrote about food. i hope you like it.
I so agree about the plastic! The clerks are so surprised when you say "no bags please". The other day, he STILL tried to put my stuff in a plastic bag. I had to remind him.
Love your blog, Olivia. Hope you write more soon!! Mim
PS - do you do life coaching? email me at junkguru99@gmail.com
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