Posted on Feb 07 2010 by Daniella Dimitrova Russo
As we reported in December, Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-partisan research organization, made public a study of unbilical cord blood of American babies. The test found nearly 300 chemicals, including many present in plastic objects such as Bisphenol A (BPA), flame retardants, lead, and PCBs.
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These chemicals are increasingly linked to serious...
Posted on Feb 05 2010 by Daniella Dimitrova Russo
We are proud to welcome the Breast Cancer Fund to our growing coalition. Based in San Francisco, this nonprofit has a mission quite different from most cancer organizations. Instead of focusing on finding cures, the Breast Cancer Fund identifies – and advocates for elimination of – the environmental and other preventable causes of the disease. Plastics are one such cause.
The mission of the...
Posted on Dec 13 2009 by Plastic Pollution Coalition
(Originally posted on MidwayJourney)
In the Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a king who was cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity.
A beach cleanup on Midway Atoll made us feel just like Sisyphus.
There are millions of tons of plastics present in our oceans, and these are constantly fragmenting into smaller and smaller pieces which...
Posted on Oct 26 2009 by Manuel Maqueda
In September 2009, during the Midway Journey expedition, Jan Vozenilek captured what to our knowledge is the first footage of fish eating plastic bits floating on the surface of the ocean.
Studies conducted by the Algalita Marine Research Foundation have demonstrated that several types of fish are regularly eating pieces of plastic they mistake for food. At the same time, Japanese scientists (Mato,...
