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You can think of it like the night sky. If you look up at night, you see all those white dots, that’s essentially what you see in the garbage patch. It’s not that dense, but there are a lot of them … out there, you start seeing more and more plastic the longer you look. – Matthias Egger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The problem is getting bigger and bigger by the minute, we see turtles that are entangled in ghost fishing nets. Sometimes it’s even just turtle carcasses. We see ingestion of plastic fragments. Then there’s also the pollutants – chemicals. – Matthias Egger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you’re out there, what you see is just pristine blue ocean, you can think of it like the night sky. If you look up at night, you see all those white dots, that’s essentially what you see in the garbage patch. It’s not that dense, but there are a lot of them … out there, you start seeing more and more plastic the longer you look. – Matthias Egger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Some of the plasticizers and chemicals can transfer from the plastic containers into the food during heating, so we totally advocate that you transfer your food from a plastic container into a glass bowl and microwave it that way. – James Rogers	Found on CNN 1 year ago
New York CNN Tupperware was a disruptor in the market and in households nationwide when Tupperware Tupperware stock plastic storage containers launched in 1946. – Ventakesh Shankar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We know that it is very common that a large range of chemicals are formed whenever plastic materials are burned, including styrene, benzene, and a wide number of polyaromatic hydrocarbons – all of these are strong carcinogens, and it’s important for people to avoid exposures. – Richard Peltier	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re seeing anti-vehicle mines, both metal and plastic. We’re seeing anti-personnel mines, we’re seeing anti-personnel binding and fragmentation mines on tripwires, grenades on tripwires and we’re also seeing cluster munitions. – Mairi Cunningham	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think there’s a lesson in here for us as well, if we just stick to what we’ve always done, it’s not going to turn out well for us. Just because Manhattan has always been where it is, does it make sense that it will be there in 200 or 300 years? I don’t know. But I think we would benefit from being plastic and flexible and adaptive. And I think that’s kind of what the gentoos are telling us. – Heather Lynch	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We identified (the pollution) mainly comes from fishing nets, which is very common debris on Trinidade Island’s beaches, the (nets) are dragged by the marine currents and accumulate on the beach. When the temperature rises, this plastic melts and becomes embedded with the beach’s natural material. – Fernanda Avelar Santos	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We talk so much about the Anthropocene, and this is it, the pollution, the garbage in the sea and the plastic dumped incorrectly in the oceans is becoming geological material … preserved in the earth’s geological records. – Fernanda Avelar Santos	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The place where we found these samples (of plastic) is a permanently preserved area in Brazil, near the place green turtles lay their eggs. – Fernanda Avelar Santos	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There will always be cases where we forget our (reusable) bags at home. We should try not do that but when we do, we need to buy a bag. And if we then have already too many durable bags at home, it would be better from a climate perspective, at least, to buy a single-use paper or plastic bag. – Tomas Ekvall	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The plastics and petrochemical industries are making it impossible to curb the amount of plastic contaminating our oceans, new research is always helpful, but we don’t need to wait for new research to take action — the problem is already painfully clear, in the plastic accumulating in our oceans, air, soil, food, and bodies. – Judith Enck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
New research is always helpful, but we don’t need to wait for new research to take action — the problem is already painfully clear, in the plastic accumulating in our oceans, air, soil, food, and bodies. – Judith Enck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For Cleancult, we believe in progress not perfection, so giving consumers as many ways to access these sustainable products as possible is a key driver to positively impact this plastic waste issue. – Ryan Lupberger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It demonstrates beyond any doubt that the plastic pollution problem is getting much bigger and is being driven by the polymer producers, which are of course, driven by the oil and gas sector. – Andrew Forrest	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Hang the coat on a sturdy wooden or plastic form fitting hanger when not wearing. – Wayne Edelman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Because the court is smaller, the paddle is shorter and lighter than a tennis racquet, and the ball is made out of plastic, so it’s very easy to learn and control for most people starting out. – Ernie Medina	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The ideal bag law bans plastic and adds a fee to paper. – Judith Enck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Every community struggles with plastic waste, putting in a Blocker [ System ] is going to help reduce landfill, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce transportation needs, all of that other good stuff. – Heidi Kujawa	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I know these fossils better than anyone. They are anatomically very puzzling, even if they are modern humans, as the DNA suggests, how do we reconcile that ? Perhaps people's anatomical form in the past -- over long timescales -- was very' plastic' and responded to the environment and lifestyle of these early people. This could be something we have lost since we took up farming. – Darren Curnoe	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When iridoid cocktails were applied on the bottom of dishes that were then covered by a punctured plastic cover, cats still exhibited licking and chewing even though they couldn't contact the chemicals directly, this means that licking and chewing is an instinctive behavior elicited by olfactory stimulation of iridoids. – Masao Miyazaki	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Cats show the same response to iridoid cocktails and natural plants except for chewing, they lick the chemicals on the plastic dish and rub against and roll over on the dish. – Masao Miyazaki	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Whether their plastic caps are tethered or not, the company still produces billions of throwaway plastic bottles every year, harming our environment, our communities and our climate, and impacting our health. – Graham Forbes	Found on CNN 1 year ago

You can think of it like the night sky. If you look up at night, you see all those white dots, that’s essentially what you see in the garbage patch. It’s not that dense, but there are a lot of them … out there, you start seeing more and more plastic the longer you look.

– Matthias Egger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The problem is getting bigger and bigger by the minute, we see turtles that are entangled in ghost fishing nets. Sometimes it’s even just turtle carcasses. We see ingestion of plastic fragments. Then there’s also the pollutants – chemicals.

– Matthias Egger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you’re out there, what you see is just pristine blue ocean, you can think of it like the night sky. If you look up at night, you see all those white dots, that’s essentially what you see in the garbage patch. It’s not that dense, but there are a lot of them … out there, you start seeing more and more plastic the longer you look.

– Matthias Egger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some of the plasticizers and chemicals can transfer from the plastic containers into the food during heating, so we totally advocate that you transfer your food from a plastic container into a glass bowl and microwave it that way.

– James Rogers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

New York CNN Tupperware was a disruptor in the market and in households nationwide when Tupperware Tupperware stock plastic storage containers launched in 1946.

– Ventakesh Shankar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know that it is very common that a large range of chemicals are formed whenever plastic materials are burned, including styrene, benzene, and a wide number of polyaromatic hydrocarbons – all of these are strong carcinogens, and it’s important for people to avoid exposures.

– Richard Peltier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re seeing anti-vehicle mines, both metal and plastic. We’re seeing anti-personnel mines, we’re seeing anti-personnel binding and fragmentation mines on tripwires, grenades on tripwires and we’re also seeing cluster munitions.

– Mairi Cunningham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think there’s a lesson in here for us as well, if we just stick to what we’ve always done, it’s not going to turn out well for us. Just because Manhattan has always been where it is, does it make sense that it will be there in 200 or 300 years? I don’t know. But I think we would benefit from being plastic and flexible and adaptive. And I think that’s kind of what the gentoos are telling us.

– Heather Lynch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We identified (the pollution) mainly comes from fishing nets, which is very common debris on Trinidade Island’s beaches, the (nets) are dragged by the marine currents and accumulate on the beach. When the temperature rises, this plastic melts and becomes embedded with the beach’s natural material.

– Fernanda Avelar Santos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We talk so much about the Anthropocene, and this is it, the pollution, the garbage in the sea and the plastic dumped incorrectly in the oceans is becoming geological material … preserved in the earth’s geological records.

– Fernanda Avelar Santos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The place where we found these samples (of plastic) is a permanently preserved area in Brazil, near the place green turtles lay their eggs.

– Fernanda Avelar Santos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There will always be cases where we forget our (reusable) bags at home. We should try not do that but when we do, we need to buy a bag. And if we then have already too many durable bags at home, it would be better from a climate perspective, at least, to buy a single-use paper or plastic bag.

– Tomas Ekvall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The plastics and petrochemical industries are making it impossible to curb the amount of plastic contaminating our oceans, new research is always helpful, but we don’t need to wait for new research to take action — the problem is already painfully clear, in the plastic accumulating in our oceans, air, soil, food, and bodies.

– Judith Enck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

New research is always helpful, but we don’t need to wait for new research to take action — the problem is already painfully clear, in the plastic accumulating in our oceans, air, soil, food, and bodies.

– Judith Enck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For Cleancult, we believe in progress not perfection, so giving consumers as many ways to access these sustainable products as possible is a key driver to positively impact this plastic waste issue.

– Ryan Lupberger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It demonstrates beyond any doubt that the plastic pollution problem is getting much bigger and is being driven by the polymer producers, which are of course, driven by the oil and gas sector.

– Andrew Forrest

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hang the coat on a sturdy wooden or plastic form fitting hanger when not wearing.

– Wayne Edelman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because the court is smaller, the paddle is shorter and lighter than a tennis racquet, and the ball is made out of plastic, so it’s very easy to learn and control for most people starting out.

– Ernie Medina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ideal bag law bans plastic and adds a fee to paper.

– Judith Enck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every community struggles with plastic waste, putting in a Blocker [ System ] is going to help reduce landfill, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce transportation needs, all of that other good stuff.

– Heidi Kujawa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know these fossils better than anyone. They are anatomically very puzzling, even if they are modern humans, as the DNA suggests, how do we reconcile that ? Perhaps people's anatomical form in the past -- over long timescales -- was very' plastic' and responded to the environment and lifestyle of these early people. This could be something we have lost since we took up farming.

– Darren Curnoe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When iridoid cocktails were applied on the bottom of dishes that were then covered by a punctured plastic cover, cats still exhibited licking and chewing even though they couldn't contact the chemicals directly, this means that licking and chewing is an instinctive behavior elicited by olfactory stimulation of iridoids.

– Masao Miyazaki

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Cats show the same response to iridoid cocktails and natural plants except for chewing, they lick the chemicals on the plastic dish and rub against and roll over on the dish.

– Masao Miyazaki

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whether their plastic caps are tethered or not, the company still produces billions of throwaway plastic bottles every year, harming our environment, our communities and our climate, and impacting our health.

– Graham Forbes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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