Blogposts tagged 'Plastic'

Plastic Arctic

Posted by claire miller - 5 September 2011 at 10:57am - 0 Comments
Scientist Clare Miller on Arctic Sunrise
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace / Nick Cobbing
Scientist Clare Miller collecting data on the amount of plastics in the Arctic ocean, on the Arctic Sunrise

For many people the Arctic is seen as one of the last wilderness regions left where there has been limited human impact. However, sampling of marine plastic debris over the past few days shows that the far reaching effects of mankind is clearly present even in the Arctic ocean.

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic sunrise, oceans, plastic, science, ship tours

Modern art is (made from) rubbish

Posted by saunvedan - 26 September 2008 at 3:58pm - 0 Comments

The Rainbow Worrier, made from 5,000 plastic bags It's been an arty week for me. After the polar bear sculptures in the US, an outdoor art group in Devon - Trail Recycled Art in Landscape (Trail) - has made a trawler boat out of 5,000 plastic bags and named it Rainbow Worrier after our legendary ship the Rainbow Warrior. They even filled it up with plastic fish in fishing nets to highlight how plastic is destroying marine ecosystems.

Plastic waste isn't just what you see on beaches and coast lines. A plastic dump in the Pacific Ocean as large as Texas is constantly swirling in a massive gyre that is referred to as the 'trash vortex'. Other unflattering names include Asian trash trail and the Eastern Garbage Patch where six kilos of plastic swirls for every kilo of plankton.

Article tagged as: art, dumping, marine life, oceans, plastic, waste

Dead seas: human activities are killing off the oceans

Posted by jossc - 15 February 2008 at 2:14pm - 0 Comments

AAAS map of impacts on the N Sea

It's official; mankind is killing off our oceans far faster than previously thought. The first global-scale study of human impacts on marine ecosystems, published today in the flagship US journal Science, reveals a picture of widespread destruction with few if any areas remaining untouched.

Article tagged as: destructive fishing, marine reserves, north sea, oceans, overfishing, plastic, pollution

The vinyl solution

Posted by jamie - 18 October 2006 at 7:00am - 0 Comments

web_banner_255_176.jpgNow this is fun. Top-notch design studio Freerange Graphics have produced another of their really quite cool online animations, and anyone who's seen cyberpunk animal welfare skit The Meatrix or organic sci-fi rip-off Grocery Store Wars will know they can put a groovy spin on ethically-minded issues.

Article tagged as: plastic, PVC, REACH, toxics
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