Sentences with phrase «plastic trash»

Be sure to stock up on last plastic trash bags or boxes to take your donations to drop - off locations.

The massive amounts of plastic trash in marine environments may be leading to toxic metals entering the food chain.

Enough to place the equivalent of five grocery bags full of plastic trash on every foot (30 cm) of every nation's coastline around the globe.

More than 8 million tons of plastic trash end up in the ocean every year, including millions of disposable plastic bags.

We can keep plastic trash out of our ocean and save ocean life.

I use a plain plastic trash can for the wet / dirty diapers.

In this competition, a lure machine pulls a white plastic trash bag along a wire set on a course close to the ground.

Needless to say, eliminating them would go a long way to reducing plastic trash along the Great Barrier Reef.

Also trash bags: I'm using up my old plastic grocery bags by filling them with my trash instead of buying more big plastic trash bags.

My favorite things about cloth diapering is saving money and not adding plastic trash to the environment.

Over 50 species of fish have been found to consume plastic trash at sea.

Sometimes the entire landscape here seems composed of colorful plastic trash as far as the eye can see, rendering a sudden glimpse of grass, let alone sheep, startling.

The first, above, portrays how plastic trash can end up killing marine life.

A sassy campaign wants plastic trash recognized as an actual country, in hopes of getting official attention.

It's hard to imagine what that amount of plastic trash even looks like, but we can tell you what happens to it.

Will we reduce waste with print - on - demand processes or find ourselves buried in a sea of layered plastic trash?

Depending on the pet you may need a litter box, paper towels, plastic trash bags, grooming items, and / or household bleach.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Environmental artist Chris Jordan will discuss albatross chicks that died from eating plastic trash in a free, public presentation, «Encountering Midway: A Barometer for Our Culture and Our World,» at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in the CUB auditorium at Washington State University.

NEVER line trash cans with plastic trash bags due to the choking and suffocation hazard it poses.

[Translate] Environment From plastic trash and discarded fishing gear to oil spills and pesticide runoff, human beings have treated...

Materials • Two «two - by - four» or similar size wood planks, about one half meter long works best • Small plastic tub with lid • Sand or another dense material to fill the tub • Water • Freezer • Books • Ruler • Protractor • A carpeted area or a rug that can get damp (or a protective covering, such as a large plastic trash bag) Preparation • Make sure that the pieces of wood have surfaces that are similar in roughness and are about the same length and width.

Ocean currents would propel floating plastic trash into curved floating booms, which would funnel trash toward a central tank, to be collected monthly by ships.

«Expanding Washed Ashore into the community provides an opportunity to engage more people beyond Shedd's walls with an artistic, powerful message that single - use plastic trash is one of the deadliest predators for our lakes, rivers and oceans,» said Kris Nesbitt, senior director of exhibits and experience development at Shedd Aquarium.

Many are also made of metal or special plastic, like acrylonitrile butadiene styrene plastic in Dekor's pails, which doesn't absorb odors like most plastic trash bins, which are usually made of cheap polypropylene.

An obsession for plastic trash and its hidden «beauty» and a meditation on its use and re-use in relation with Mother Earth.

It's estimated that getting one liter of bottled drinking water into our hands requires seven liters of water and a quarter liter of oil, so there are a huge amount of wasted resources tied up in our bottled water habit, as well as an enormous plastic trash problem from all of those bottles and packaging.

Designer Karim Rashid is known for his sexy but simple designs, such as the Bobble water bottle or the Garbo plastic trash can.

I have just a cheap plastic trash can from Walmart that I put a pail liner in and it has no lid.

«A «marine motorhome for microbes»: Oceanic plastic trash conveys disease to coral reefs.»

Worldwide, plastic trash ensnares wildlife and picks up toxic pollutants that get ingested by marine birds and fish when they mistake small bits of plastic for food.

There's plastic trash littering «the Bay of Bengal, the Mediterranean Sea, the coast of Indonesia, all five subtropical gyres; coastal regions, enclosed bays, seas and gulfs.»

The patch is in an area of ocean between California and Hawaii called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre — a kind of swirling dead end for Pacific currents, which have been depositing floating plastic trash there for decades.

This year, the machine will bring back its first collection from the North Pacific Gyre, which has about 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic trash swirling around inside it.

Two other works on tabletops similarly use found objects (books in one, plastic trash items in another) to create miniature architectural models and landscapes, which despite their delicacy aren't particularly enthralling.

Plastic trash blown into a harbor in Tokyo or Long Beach can drift hundreds of miles into the Pacific, snagging on a reef or ending up stuck in the gullet of a suffocating sea turtle.

Plastic trash chokes and kills animals like sea turtles, whales, and sea birds, as animals think that the plastics are food.

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.

The most famous example of this phenomenon is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a floating accumulation Marine Debris comprised largely of plastic trash located north of Hawaii.

The Coral Reef exhibit powerfully depicts the escalating problem of plastic trash inundating the oceans and choking marine life.

Recognition of plastic pollution under the Clean Water Act will enable states to develop water - quality standards to finally begin curbing the amount of plastic trash dumped on our beaches and in our oceans.

Their unique sustainability factor resides in the highly innovative recycled Parley webbing made from Ocean Plastic — discarded plastic trash recovered from beaches in the Maldives before washing out to sea.

Boyan Slat, a charismatic 22 - year - old drop - out inventor, plans to clean up plastic trash circulating in the North Pacific Gyre by launching a fleet of floating trash collectors.

To create «Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape,» Alejandro Durán gathers plastic trash that washes up on the beaches of Sian Ka'an, Mexico's largest federally - protected reserve.

With heaps of plastic choking the world's oceans and fishermen chaffing at new regulations meant to protect dwindling European fish stocks, a top EU official has proposed a clever idea that may help address both problems: Pay fishermen to catch plastic trash, rather than fish.EU fisheries chief Maria Damanaki has been under fire for the European Commission's plan to ban discards of edible fish.

Contents: 5x7 foot plastic tarp Crow bar 2 pairs heavy working gloves Waterproof matches 2 whistles Generic Swiss Army - type knife Plastic trash bags with zip ties 4 emergency survival blankets 4 ponchos 8 multifunction warmers, lasting 20 hours 8 tissue packs 4 toothbrushes and 2 tubes toothpaste 4 lightsticks 50» of 1/4 inch utility rope — made of twine, not plastic.

Turn plastic trash cans into large outdoor planters, and save a couple hundred bucks!