Not exact matches
Plastic bottles and drinks containers have a significant impact on the environment,
with discarded food and drink containers making up at least a fifth of rubbish on
beaches.
If you're going to spend say, a day at the
beach, and have reusable swimmers, bring a
plastic bag along
with you to put the wet and / or dirty diapers in.
small tin buckets easy to find at paint supply stores small cardboard paint buckets also at paint supply stores; paint or cover
with paper chinese food boxes most craft stores have these in a variety of colors plain paper sack
with a drawing or stickers on the front and tied
with a ribbon or a cardstock header stapling the bag closed
plastic beach buckets check the dollar store for the best price terra cotta flower pots perfect for a garden theme; the kids can paint these for a party craft too fabric or felt bags
with or without a drawstring large tin cans of course, make sure the edges are not sharp mini canvas totes bought or homemade cardboard boxes such as a cereal box, cut down and covered
with paper or painted; add a ribbon, string or wire handle baskets lots of inexpensive ones available at thrift stores popcorn boxes available at party supply stores Helpful Tips:
From the North Side to the South Side and neighborhoods in between, Shedd Aquarium is partnering
with local elected officials during Earth Week to host four, simultaneous Great Lakes Action Days on Saturday, April 21 to pick up litter, like
plastic, on local
beaches.
On CNN right now a dead sperm whale found on the
beach with a little over 64 lbs of
plastic its stomach.
The Long
Beach City Council passed a 5 - cent fee on
plastic bags at stores in the city,
with members voted 5 - 0 to impose the fee, which will take effect on April 22 — Earth Day — next year.
Hamilton
Beach has you covered
with a BPA - free black
plastic ice maker.
For the moment, the
beaches of Antarctica are the most pristine scene I have seen on the planet, but that could change; [the] more boats that go down, the more people arrive
with plastic bags and other paraphernalia that blows off the boat or gets left lying on the shore — that will change things.
A fun experiment
with hundreds of
plastic ducks on a
beach shows that AI trained on drone photos could seriously improve seabird colony counts
Indeed, when I was exploring a remote
beach past the South Point of Hawaii, I found pill bottles from India and mashed pieces of various products — oil containers, detergent jugs,
plastic caps —
with Russian, Korean, and Chinese writing on them.
In southern California's Orange County alone, the economic benefits of
beach cleanup could range from $ 13 per resident in a three - month period if debris were reduced by 25 percent to $ 42 per resident
with a 75 percent drop in
plastics and other trash along the oceanfront, according to a new study.
It's these moments that have inspired her students to work together on video PSAs that depict
plastic pollution along their
beach to share
with local governments and hopefully encourage coastal cleanup initiatives.
While in Syria, Albarn worked
with conductor Issam Rafea, who composed a gorgeous piece full of strings, woodwinds and hand percussion for Gorillaz's third album,
Plastic Beach.
Murdoc Niccals credits Jawaad
with bringing Gorillaz to Damascus, and the rapper is billed as an inspiration in
Plastic Beach's liner notes under his given name, Wissam Khodur.
Gorillaz returned to the Syrian valley
with Plastic Beach's cast of all - stars in tow for a special performance at the Damascus Citadel, a 1,000 - year - old walled palace in the northwest corner of the city.
The scooter - style
plastic body panels are dispensed
with, and instead the Road Fox has an exposed tube framework
with rakish angles suggesting a
beach - buggy / chopper look.
The Cactus M Concept is a convertible
beach buggy
with a waterproof interior, inflatable roof and tough
plastic panels.
Sanitation · Litter, litter pan, and scoop (shirt box
with plastic bag works well for pan) · Newspaper, paper towels, and trash bags · Household chlorine
beach or disinfectant
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.
Unfortunately the
beach itself suffers from the bane of most of Karimunjawa's (and Indonesia's)
beaches and was littered
with plastic, but a daily clean up helps to alleviate the unhappy fact (please please don't accept straws,
plastic bags and
plastic water bottles — it ends up here!).
Every friday we get together
with beach cleaning organisation SeaMade who, along
with dive staff, tourists and locals at 5 pm to clean the
beach To maintain our
plastic free paradise.
The walkway, made of recycled
plastic, links Pollok
Beach with Flat Rocks and is known as the Humpback Dolphin Trail.
An extremely small and simple eatery located down one of the small and unremarkable side roads off Bophut
Beach Road, in the heart of Fisherman's Village, this restaurant consists of just a handful of tables
with simple
plastic seats.
What to Bring: Comfortable clothing, towel, extra water, sea sick medicine if needed, sunglasses, sunblock, rain jacket or poncho, snacks, hat, sunglasses, camera (
with protective
plastic bag), flip flops, water sandals, strap sandals or water shoes, light hiking shoes, and anything else you might need for your free time on mainland
beach (book, magazine, etc).
Despite the fact that it is located in the largely tourist - oriented Fisherman's Village area (though not on Bophut
Beach Road), the prices are impressively low thanks to the simplicity of the food and setting,
with its
plastic garden chairs under a corrugated metal roof.
Pangandaran is often touted as the local alternative to Bali and the similarities to Bali's Kuta are not unwarranted, namely the jumble of ugly unregulated hotel blocks and
beaches littered
with plastic.
Mr Cragg, a graduate of the Royal College of Art who spent two years working as a lab technician before he became a full time artist, began as a junk sculptor, working
with pieces of
plastic rubbish found washed up on
beaches.
I created ice lollies filled
with plastic collected from a UK
beach and used them to create a sinister twist to the normal advertising stock images and shot in a studio using different generations to highlight that these issues are growing over time and that the problem we have created will pass on to the young and innocent.
Tropicalamerican (chairs) are
plastic Monobloc chairs upholstered
with beach towels.
Spanning the Museum's Great Hall, the «
Beach», created in partnership
with Snarkitecture, covers 10,000 square feet and includes an «ocean» of nearly one million recyclable translucent
plastic balls.
Upholstered
plastic monobloc chair
with beach towels, 42 ″ x 21 ″ x 19 ″.
She uses both traditional and unconventional materials — including
plastic chairs upholstered
with beach towels or pineapple upside - down cake — to create sculptures, installations and architectural interventions that foster accessibility and encourage public participation.
The company is based in Martha's Vineyard, MA, but it sources its ocean
plastic from Haiti, a beautiful Caribbean island that struggles terribly
with plastic pollution, partly due to lack of adequate recycling facilities, but also because the ocean tides relentlessly push
plastic waste from the rest of the world onto its
beaches.
TerraCycle's recent partnership
with Proctor and Gamble to put out a fully recyclable shampoo bottle made from
beach plastic (difficult - to - recycle for its exposure to contaminants and UV light, depreciation, and mixed material makeup) for Head and Shoulders creates a market for recycled materials, viewing them as more sustainable, economically and environmentally, than producing additional
plastics.
Through its blog platform, active social media presence, and, notably, a short narrated by actor Jeff Bridges on its homepage, the worldwide
Plastic Pollution Coalition aims to create awareness around our interactions with plastic in order to alter our habits, from picking up trash on the beach, divesting from single - use items and questioning where our trash is being
Plastic Pollution Coalition aims to create awareness around our interactions
with plastic in order to alter our habits, from picking up trash on the beach, divesting from single - use items and questioning where our trash is being
plastic in order to alter our habits, from picking up trash on the
beach, divesting from single - use items and questioning where our trash is being taken.
With us using plastic cups and straws, coupled with the sight of rubbish on the beaches casts a negative perception on our operation
With us using
plastic cups and straws, coupled
with the sight of rubbish on the beaches casts a negative perception on our operation
with the sight of rubbish on the
beaches casts a negative perception on our operations...
I stepped on Midway Island to find an albatross dead from ingesting
plastic, the ripped open decaying body lying on the
beach with multi-colored
plastic caps and debris embedded in its stomach, a common sight on the remote island.
With a team of 40 international students from Greece, the U.S., and Australia, the
Plastic Free Island project is working to engage the local community on Kefalonia about plastic pollution issues, study forensic evidence of plastic pollution and remove it from sea caves and on beaches, create large - scale public art to expose the problem, and design alternatives to plastic for local busi
Plastic Free Island project is working to engage the local community on Kefalonia about
plastic pollution issues, study forensic evidence of plastic pollution and remove it from sea caves and on beaches, create large - scale public art to expose the problem, and design alternatives to plastic for local busi
plastic pollution issues, study forensic evidence of
plastic pollution and remove it from sea caves and on beaches, create large - scale public art to expose the problem, and design alternatives to plastic for local busi
plastic pollution and remove it from sea caves and on
beaches, create large - scale public art to expose the problem, and design alternatives to
plastic for local busi
plastic for local businesses.
The effects of this throwaway mentality can be readily witnessed in our landfills and at our
beaches that are being overrun
with plastic packaging.
Representatives from the Marine Conservation Society are delighted
with the move: «We see so much single use
plastic appear in the sea and on
beaches in our surveys.
Follow Jaymi on Twitter for more stories like this More on
Plastics TED Talk: Turning Off the
Plastic Pollution Faucet (Video) Crowd - Sourcing Solutions to
Plastic - Filled Oceans Bioneers 2010: «Washed Ashore» Art Exhibit Explores
Plastic Pollution
with Giant
Beach - Trash Bird Fungus is a Hot Solution to Disposing of BPA Laden
Plastics
By then they'll also be enjoying the benefits of a reduced -
plastic lifestyle,
with less litter lying around, less trash to haul to the curb, and cleaner
beaches.
And while you're collecting, share your
beach plastic recycling photos
with us!
The three companies worked together to put out the world's first fully recyclable shampoo bottle made
with plastic collected from
beaches, rivers and other waterways.
Working directly
with NGOs and other
beach cleanup organizations, TerraCycle sources the shipments of rigid
plastics collected through
beach cleanup efforts, capturing these materials for recycling for the first time, at no cost to participants.
Procter & Gamble announced that it has teamed up
with us at TerraCycle and SUEZ, the largest waste management company in Europe, to source, develop and put out the first fully recyclable shampoo bottle made from up to 25 % recycled
beach plastic for the world's # 1 shampoo brand, Head & Shoulders.
Additionally, Shark Stewards will be holding its monthly
beach survey, cigarette butt count, and clean up at Aquatic Park, San Francisco at at 08:30 a.m. on Sunday,
with a focus on encouraging local businesses to reduce
plastic straw waste.
My HSC study notes Every birthday card since I was born An E.T doll
with battery - operated, flashing eyes A
plastic bag filled
with black sand from Hawaii A June, 1959 copy of National Geographic (coincidentally containing a photograph of a Hawaiian black sand
beach) A Frenz Of The Enz badge My high school uniform A replica Crowded House jacket a friend painted for me A black & white polka - dotted Morrissey Edmiston jacket Two fossilised shells A novel I wrote at age 11 called Scamp the Wonder Dog.
Once exclusively
plastic fantastic and accompanied by wind breakers on
beaches up and down the country, the parasol is making a comeback in British gardens,
with very stylish options available from the high street.