For all those who think petro-chemical based goods(rubber soles, plastic/vinyl uppers, poly-viscose fabrics) are the next best thing to sliced bread....
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"Here's your sign:"
Great Pacific Trash Vortex
[*] Discovered in 1997 by Captain Charles Moore [Observer 8 Aug 10]
[*] 2008: 45 kilos of trash per kilo of plankton [Observer 8 Aug 10]
[*] The floating dump covers an area one and a half time the size of the USA [Observer 8 Aug 10]
[*] Plastic constitutes 90 percent of all trash floating in the world's oceans [L.A. Times 2 Aug 06]
[*] Every square kilometre of ocean hosts roughly 120,000 pieces of floating plastic [UN]
[*] The world produced 300 billion pounds of plastic each year, about 10% ends up in the ocean, 70% of which eventually sinks [GreenPeace]
[*] It has been estimated that over a million sea-birds and one hundred thousand marine mammals and sea turtles are killed each year by ingestion of plastics or entanglement. [Greenpeace]
[*] 80 percent of ocean trash originates on land [L.A. Times 2 Aug 06]
[*] The Eastern Garbage Patch floats between Hawaii and California (two times bigger than Texas)
[*] The Western Garbage Patch forms east of Japan and west of Hawaii
[*] Plastic does not biodegrade, no natural process can break it down
[*] Discovered in 1997 by Captain Charles Moore [Observer 8 Aug 10]
[*] 2008: 45 kilos of trash per kilo of plankton [Observer 8 Aug 10]
[*] The floating dump covers an area one and a half time the size of the USA [Observer 8 Aug 10]
[*] Plastic constitutes 90 percent of all trash floating in the world's oceans [L.A. Times 2 Aug 06]
[*] Every square kilometre of ocean hosts roughly 120,000 pieces of floating plastic [UN]
[*] The world produced 300 billion pounds of plastic each year, about 10% ends up in the ocean, 70% of which eventually sinks [GreenPeace]
[*] It has been estimated that over a million sea-birds and one hundred thousand marine mammals and sea turtles are killed each year by ingestion of plastics or entanglement. [Greenpeace]
[*] 80 percent of ocean trash originates on land [L.A. Times 2 Aug 06]
[*] The Eastern Garbage Patch floats between Hawaii and California (two times bigger than Texas)
[*] The Western Garbage Patch forms east of Japan and west of Hawaii
[*] Plastic does not biodegrade, no natural process can break it down
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"Here's your sign:"
