Mermaid Tears – Plastic Health Danger

Besides the dangers of ocean plastic consumption to the albatross and other birds and marine life, there are the dangers to the entire food chain. By being the animal who eats those who have eaten others, we have no real predator ourselves. As such, we humans ultimately get all the… Continue reading

Plastic Ocean…What Now?

So what to do about all that plastic in our oceans? In Algae Marine Research Foundation founder Charles Moore’s words, the only thing we can do is stop polluting and hope the system can clean itself up in the in hundreds of years…[and give the ocean] time to spit it… Continue reading

To Give or Not To Give Plastic Bags

Writing yesterday about my little garbage holders reminded me of what garbage is often put in – those plastic grocery bags that most stores still give out. Recycling the ones that find their way to me, as a few always seem to do, I just don’t think about using them… Continue reading