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Images of the world's garbage and pollution problems

January 9, 2009 | 2

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Brown Bagging It:
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Brown Bagging It: 1.14 million brown paper bags are used in the U.S. every hour [Link to this slide]
Source: The Art Project "Running The Numbers," Research and Photography by Chris Jordan
Disappearing:
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Disappearing: One in four mammals is now threatened with extinction from deforestation, hunting and climate change. [Link to this slide]
INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE
Drill, baby, drill:
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Drill, baby, drill: Proponents say opening the U.S. outer continental shelf to drilling would cut dependence on foreign oil. [Link to this slide]
SOURCE: U.S. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
Trashed:
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Trashed: For decades, circulating ocean currents have picked up refuse from shorelines and boats and corralled it in two vast lobes of decaying, soupy material dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. [Link to this slide]
George Retseck, SOURCES: GREENPEACE, CHARLES MOORE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
Magellan of Garbage
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Magellan of Garbage Garbage patch discoverer, Charles Moore [Link to this slide]
MATT CRAMER Algalita Marine Research Foundation, www.algalita.org
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  1. 1. elderlybloke 08:05 PM 8/6/09

    I read that some localities have banned plastic bags and want paper bags used instead,

    If paper bags are bad as well , then I will have to buy a second multi times usable bag to take to the supermarket.

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  2. 2. creac 06:44 PM 9/3/09

    be so kind to send me more info i am in the caribean coast in the mayan riviera i want to help, i work from the anahuac university.
    gustavo_gorocica@hotmail.com

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