Sentences with phrase «island of plastic»

Ever dreamed of living on a giant island of plastic?

The camera then widens to an aerial view and we see the extent of the floating island of plastic.

Greenpeace doesn't actually do anything — like, say, clean up the island of plastic trash bobbing out there in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

But then she'll have to deal with overfishing, pollution (all the crap we pump into the oceans and the floating islands of plastic), annoying speedboats, etc..

Not exact matches

Just look at the plastic rubbish on one tiny little island in the South Pacific that doesn't have any human inhabitants, yet has collected 18 million tonnes of plastic waste just from the sea, despite being in the middle of nowhere.

Toray Plastics (America), Inc., located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island (go to www.toraytpa.com), and founded in 1985, is the global leader in the innovation and manufacture of advanced polypropylene, polyester...

Citing examples of deforestation for agriculture, plastic islands, and diminishing air quality, he said traditional design structures were flawed.

Toray Plastics (America), Inc., located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island (go to www.toraytpa.com), and founded in 1985, is the global leader in the innovation and manufacture of advanced p

Toray Plastics (America), Inc., located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island (go to www.toraytpa.com), and founded in 1985, is the global leader in the innovation and manufacture of advanced polypropylene,...

Long Island Plastic Surgical Group has been named the # 1 Best Plastic Surgery Group by patients for the past six years in the annual Long Island Press Best of L.I. contest.

The Plastic Island rests just below the surface of the water, although high volume sections do surface.

Did you know that there is an island made of trash and plastic the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.

They made more than 120 cloth diapers and a couple of dozen receiving blankets and purchased a couple of dozen pairs of plastic pants to send to the Caribbean island nation, where poorer families average $ 90 to $ 300 a year.

There is an island in the south pacific where 18 tons of plastic was found washed up on its shores.

Several advocacy groups and outspoken residents are suing to stop New York City from tearing up a five - block section of the wooden Coney Island boardwalk and replacing it with concrete and plastic.

The city of Long Beach and Suffolk County on Long Island have a fee in place for single - use plastic bags.

The run - in occurred on July 8, just after midnight, when Officer O'Keefe Thompson, 30, approached Raymond Crespo, 23, while on duty near at the intersection of Mermaid Avenue and West 32nd Street in Coney Island and ordered him to pick up a plastic cup that his friend had knocked from his hand, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.

In yet another reminder of the mayor's lesser reputation in the eyes of the Senate — where Long Island and upstate Republicans hold sway, and have been offended by efforts to oust them — New York City was forced to delay enacting a five - cent fee on plastic bags, a setback for the mayor and the City Council on a seemingly local concern but one with national political appeal.

In Trafalgar Square, anonymous artistic group Luzinterruptus will install Plastic Islands, a model that alludes to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an enormous, diffuse «island» of refuse in the middle of the ocean, drawn together by global tides.

Marine plastic pollution slowly degrades and has spread to every corner of the world's oceans, from remote islands to the ocean floor.

While terms like the «Great Pacific Garbage Patch» conjure up visions of floating islands of rubbish, most of the plastic in the oceans consists of tiny pieces invisible to the human eye.

On the top floor of a three - story building erected on the low - lying barrier island called Mustang, he and his crew of three graduate students wrapped PCR machines, centrifuges, and other laboratory equipment in clear plastic sheeting and meters of duct tape.

On Staten Island, Fresh Kills's four giant mounds of trash would be flattened, their vast accumulation of stubborn PVC plastic and glass ground to powder.

Along the shore of Adelaide Island, west of the Antarctic Peninsula, ten species of invertebrates were found attached to plastic strapping that was littering the ice.

A tiny South Pacific island 5000 kilometres from the nearest human occupation has the highest density of washed - up plastic rubbish anywhere in the world.

Plastic debris pollutes oceanic habitats from pole to pole: it is found in the open ocean, on shorelines of even the most remote islands and in the deep sea.

The Plastic Sea July 24, 2006 Commentary by Paul WatsonFounder and President of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society On the beach on San Juan Island, Washington, Allison Lance walks her dogs every morning.

Thanks to Melati and Isabel Wijsen's green campaign, the governor of Bali has agreed to commit to a plastic - free island by 2018.

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We have plastic islands out in the ocean twice the size of Texas that are made up of tiny pieces of plastic that look just like fish food (opposed to a solid mass of plastic).

Charming gray and white kitchen features four white molded plastic counter stools placed in front of a gray island topped with a white quartz countertop lit by three glass dome pendants.

I can picture him assembling them like plastic figurines on a giant play - set of Manhattan island, as he describes his story to the producers of the film.

Everything on the island is waste, from bags of maggot - infested food to piles of glass and plastic bottles, and in this brief moment, we're left to ponder the waste of human adaptation.

Other areas remain untouched - including an island of cheap, scratchy plastic around the central ignition key slot - and Saab also persists in the marginal cost - saving of mounting all four electric window switches centrally.

Susie B. Anthony Rabinowitz Gersten lives on Long Island with her four - year - old triplets and husband Jonah, a successful plastic surgeon, doting father and devoted husband — which makes it kind of strange when he turns up murdered in the apartment of Manhattan call girl Dorinda Dillon, stabbed in the chest with a pair of scissors.

Walsh warned shareholders and employees of the painful restructuring, cost reduction & rationalisation still to come, and then began systematically ticking each action item off his list: i) After one last kitchen sink loss in 2012 of EUR 116 million (mostly goodwill impairment), One51 actually recorded a net profit in 2013 for the first time in 7 years, ii) free cash flow increased from just EUR 1.1 million in 2011 to 15.4 million in 2013, iii) almost EUR 100 million was raised in two years from the sale of the plastic extrusion business, the disposal of stakes in Island Renewable Energy, Thirdforce, IFG, and (most significantly) Irish Continental Group, in addition to a substantial 2013 capital redemption from NTR, and iv) net debt (exc.

My love for Mexico explodes when I think of cenotes, swimming with turtles, swimming with whale sharks, galavanting in the turquoise waters of Isla Mujeres and visiting the Plastic Bottle Floating Island.

If you want a comfortable, shorts - and - sandals seaside vacation, at a moderate price, just a bit off the beaten path but not too far, where the seafood is fresh and beer is cold, where the water won't make you sick, an island with most of the modern conveniences without the plastic tackiness, with great diving, excellent snorkelling, beautiful water and beautiful white sand beaches, where local folks are mostly friendly and hablan English (though they may speak Spanish at home), with dependably beautiful weather most of the time, then we guarantee you'll enjoy Ambergris Caye.

The first stage in restoring the ring reef around the entire island was started in 2008 and protecting its lovely beaches without concrete, dead coral walls, or plastic mesh bags pumped full of sand, which invariably disintegrate, rip, and leave plastic debris littering the sand.

The huge quantity of garbage, which was mostly household plastics and came not from Bunaken Island itself, but from the Sulawesi mainland and even from Kalimantan, has rather spoiled the national park's beauty.

Unfortunately Indonesia has a love affair with all things plastic and we would like to reduce the amount of plastic bags that come onto the island.

Once we can get efficiency in sorting and separating different plastics from non recyclable wastes then this can be a profitable Gili Eco Trust recycling incentive whilst regaining a sustainable island and reducing the amount of rubbish going to the dump.

Being an Island with a lot of tourist, local and expats living together, it's no wonder that loads of plastic and single - use products are being used.

In the Pacific Islands, fishermen sometimes take a empty plastic bottle and crunch it underwater to mimic the sound of reef fish eating, and sharks respond to it.

Nothing needs to be rushed when you're on a beautiful tropical island, so sit in the cafe and soak up the views with a big mug of coffee, free of single use plastics.

PLASTIC BAGS One of our aims is to make Trawangan a plastic bag free PLASTIC BAGS One of our aims is to make Trawangan a plastic bag free plastic bag free island.

Wayne describes the beaches of the remote island as a «garbage dump» as trade winds continually blow huge mounds of plastic debris on shore.

With Des driving, we set off, and stopped at a few points — none of which were that exciting... but then, I noticed the sign for the Plastic Bottle Floating Island.

Our time with Richart Sowa, on his famous Plastic Bottle Floating Island, was the true highlight of our time in Isla Mujeres.

Richart continuously adds more bags of plastic bottles — growing and expanding the island.