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.
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.
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 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 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.
The runner-up is the waste-reducing plastic shell enclosing the second-generation iPod nano .
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The bags, which contained waste such as plastic, wood and metal, should have been sent to the Low Level Waste Repository, at Drigg.
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.
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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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.
In 2009, the company shed weight from its foam hot cup and plastic cold cup which reduced the amount of cup waste winding up in land fills by 4.6 million pounds per annum.
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.
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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Obviously, people don't eat cellophane, but I think, oh my God, what a waste of plastic - all the petroleum.
Questions to the environment minister included planning laws, the repatriation of waste to the Republic of Ireland, high hedges legislation and plans to introduce a levy on plastic bags.
But since then plummeting prices for virgin paper, plastic and fuels, and hence also for the waste that substitutes for them, have put an end to such visions.
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.
By not buying anything plastic I was able to live without creating any waste for the six months.
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.
In New Zealand Scion Research works to convert the waste stream from pulp and paper processing into a blend of microbial cell wall debris and plastic called polyhydroxyalkanoate, or PHA. Plant a PHA flower pot into the ground and and it biodegrades.
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.
The MoD said the rubbish was most likely to have been waste food, which they were allowed to dump provided there was no plastic in it.
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