Incinerating plastic doesn't seem to be an option for safely eliminating plastic waste, either.
We envisage a typical large-scale plant having an average capacity of 10, 000 tonnes of plastic waste per year.
Now she can fit all the plastic waste she generates in one year into a small Ziploc-size bag.
It is important that we remove the plastic waste that is washing ashore on islands in the gyres.
It will remain on display for a month as crew members hold special events aimed at raising awareness of plastic waste in the ocean.
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The most apparent and shocking of which is the plastic waste that can now be found scattered across the surfaces and the depths of our planet's oceans.
Plastic waste is one of the worst forms of trash because it takes so long to degrade, thus overflowing our landfills and polluting our oceans and waterways.
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Ms Hill says she was inspired to begin her campaign by her grandson, who told her about a vast floating island of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean.
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In a different answer to rising sea levels, Dutch studio Whim Architects produced plans for floating, self-sustaining homes made from plastic waste from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Much of the pollution that exists in the garbage patches is plastic waste that gradually breaks down into short lengths of polymer which absorb other pollutants and accelerate their uptake into the marine food-chain.
The Pacific voyage aboard the 60-foot catamaran is intended to highlight the growing amount of plastic waste in the oceans and to spur public debate on finding ways to turn the waste into a resource.
After reading about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and seeing a photograph of an albatross with its belly full of plastic several years ago, Terry started cataloguing the plastic waste she creates each year, concentrating on disposable plastics (not her laptop or television, but things like food packaging, shipping waste, straws, and so forth).
The project undertaken by the Kerala Highway Research Institute in India, where shredded plastic waste has been mixed with bitumen to lay roads, is certainly a good example of the former, particularly as the proponents of the scheme claim the road is stronger and more durable than non-plastic roads, although that remains to be seen.
The Dolphin will produce 20 liters (a little over five gallons, for those who don't speak metric) of water per day at 70% humidity, which is enough for your office if you go through one of those ungainly water cooler jugs per day or less plus, without the plastic waste, and avoiding other associated costs of water jug transportation (emissions, namely).
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Environment Minister Amedi Camara said that nearly all of the plastic package waste is not "collected and is found in the natural environment - land and sea - where they are sometimes ingested by marine species and livestock, causing their death".
The bags, which contained waste such as plastic, wood and metal, should have been sent to the Low Level Waste Repository, at Drigg.
Another theme was making trash beautiful, illustrated by typography designed from waste to plastic bag installations.
Obviously, people don't eat cellophane, but I think, oh my God, what a waste of plastic - all the petroleum.
The fire, involving about 12, 000 tonnes of waste and plastic, started at 21:10 BST at Sims Metal Management in Long Marston, on Tuesday.
Lesley Robertson, an Environment Agency environmental crime team leader, said the discovery of about 3, 000 bales of rubbish, including food waste, plastic and cans, was thought to be linked to a highly-organised scam.
The runner-up is the waste-reducing plastic shell enclosing the second-generation iPod nano .
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She returned with a brand new seasonal Christmas cup complete with its post-consumer waste collar and plastic top.
Diverting waste, especially plastic bags, from landfills is a win-win situation for everyone.
Unifi, for example, developed its own brand of yarn called REPREVE, which is made from industrial waste and clear plastic water bottles, and is used primarily by apparel manufacturers.
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Because of concerns that plastic bottles create too much waste, experts say bottled water could be hit by a public backlash similar to the one that has whipsawed the soda industry with pushes for bans and taxes.
Consumerism has brought with it plastic packaging and new problems of waste management.
Currently waste teams pick up plastic bin bags from street corners and Mr Rogers said many people in the city simply did not have room to store the large new bins.
Hundreds of tonnes of household and business waste has been disguised as plastic-wrapped hay, straw or silage bales and dumped on farmland in Essex.
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