When bottle caps were our friends

Posted on Dec 11 2009 by Manuel Maqueda
Remember when bottle caps were not bad for the environment, and kids collected them, and played with them? Those were the days when you wouldn’t find bottlecaps in the stomach of baby albatross chicks.  Or polluting the beaches of the world. In those days, children were not born already poisoned by Bisphenol A. Those were the days.  It was not that long ago…  Do you remember? Have we...

Children say it loud and clear: “we should buy less plastic”

Posted on Nov 06 2009 by Manuel Maqueda
Canadian videographer Jan Vozenilek was a member of  Midway Journey, an expedition to Midway Atoll in September 2009 to document the effects of plastic pollution on baby albatrosses.   Midway Journey was led by photographer Chris Jordan and supported by the Plastic Pollution Coalition. Earlier this week, Jan Vozenilek visited an elementary school in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, where...