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“Albatross chicks eat what their parents feed them, plastic included.” Unfortunately, the ocean is now littered with plastics “including pieces of shotgun shells, paintbrushes, pump spray nozzles, toothpaste tube caps, clothespins, buckles, toys - just to name a few.” Their parents “mistake the trash for food as they forage the vast, polluted Pacific Ocean.”
Source: Gyre: The Plastic Ocean exhibit, Anchorage Museum, Alaska
Book: Gyre: The Plastic Ocean
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Concerned about keeping plastic bottles out of landfills and the oceans. Time to shop diffent (yes, I know, "differently"). According to Bloomberg Businessweek Rethink Frabrics is doing just that:
It’s a problem that Rethink Fabrics, the Seattle-based manufacturer of Brooklyn’s recycled bottle T-shirts, is trying to work out. By spinning the bottles into a type of polyester, Rethink and companies such as Patagonia (which sells recycled polyester fleece) move plastic from landfills into closets.
Learn more about Rethink Fabrics here.
