PLASTIC in the NEWS 06.22.08 New York Times "Sea of Trash" 06.02.08 Daily Nexus "Bottled H2O Causes..." 06.02.08 National Post "A little more Junk in the water" 05.29.08 The Sunshine Coast Daily "Pollution inspires Sydney artist" 05.23.08 New York Times "A Fountain on Every Corner" 05.14.08 Turning Rubbish Into Art (UK) 05.13.08 "Cleaner and Greener? It's all in the bag" 05.11.08 Waste Management In South Africa 04.29.08 "Paper or Plastic:That's So Last Year" 04.21.08 BlueOregon.come "Ban the Bags, Portland" 04.03.08 "Paper or Plastic: You may pay 20 cents either way" 03.09.08 "Make a difference" 03.09.08 "The flap over plastic shopping bags" 03.08.08 "Reuseable news: Plastic's not our bag" 03.04.08 "Conn.officials mull plastic bag ban" 03.04.08 "Senior Subjects: Paper or Plastic?" 02.29.08 The Northern Echo "A Plastic Plague" 02.10.05 Plastic Soup (includes excellent maps) 02.04.08 New York Times-"Irish Spurn Plastic Bags" 02.03.08 "Trash. Treasure. Tide." 01.28.08 "The Chemicals Within" 01.09.08 "China Bans Free Plastic Shopping Bags"
RELEVANT L I N K S Surfrider Foundation: Oegon Chapter Network S.C.R.A.P. Solv The Ocean Conservancy Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition Turning the Tides, Juneau, Alaska Algalita Marine Research Foundation, Long Beach, California Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign, Hawaii RECOUP (UK) Better Bags Colorado Inhabitat
RELEVANT V I D E O S & I D E A S Why We Care About Plastic (12, 6 min. shorts) Garbage Island (2008) note:plays after the ad The Story of Stuff (2007) Synthetic Sea: Plastic in the Open Ocean (1991) YouTube Video (2007) Bottled Water Cartoon