Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care
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Mounds of plastic rubbish along Australia’s coastline are growing and killing wildlife which is ingesting or becoming ensnared in it, researchers say.
Scientists visited more than 170 sites along the coast and found about three-quarters of the rubbish was plastic from the land, not vessels on the ocean, and debris was concentrated near cities…
Read Full Article, Guardian UK
Sydney Harbour’s Plastic Pollution At Alarming Levels, Scientists Find, Guardian UK(08-30-2014)
When The Mermaids Cry: The Great Plastic Tide, Coastal Care
The world population is living, working, vacationing, increasingly conglomerating along the coasts, and standing on the front row of the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic waste tide ever faced.
Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form, the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the world’s oceans, yet mostly originating from where we stand: the land.
All over the world the statistics are ever growing, staggeringly. Tons and tons of plastic debris is discarded every year, everywhere, polluting lands, rivers, coasts, beaches, and oceans.
According to a 2012 report by Global Industry Analysts, plastic consumption is to reach 297.5 million tons by 2015. Our tremendous attraction to plastic, coupled with an undeniable behavioral propensity of increasingly over-consuming, discarding, littering and thus polluting, has become a combination of lethal nature…
