Navotas, Manila

November 3, 2009

Another great photo, another ruined landscape and lots of plastic bags

Navotas, Manila Originally uploaded by jna876

Bottles in the Thames

September 14, 2009




Thames Rubbish

Originally uploaded by MrStevenson

Dont put your plastic bottles in the Thames. They end up here near the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.

Uploaded by MrStevenson on 7

Khatmandu

September 1, 2009

Where I am going next …

Do look at the rest of these photos

Plastic Pictures

August 31, 2009

This blog has been illustrated by some fantastic images taken from talented people posting on Flicr. I have put those images together in a group album called Plastic Is Rubbish to illustrate:

a) The extent of  plastic  plastic pollution.
b) The dangers it presents to animals.

I am plodding through my posts  asking people to submit  … but dont wait for an invite submit any nasty plastic photos you have


North Sea Plastic Rubbish

Originally uploaded by MoreEco

Find more  plastic free products with the >>>A-Z<<< plastic free index

deformed turtle

March 16, 2009

This one is for Martin. And here’s a  film of another deformed turtle – 6 pack plastic holders are responsible here

You think they would know what plastic looked like – lord knows there’s enough of it in our oceans

Yeah and here are some stupid ducks choking on plastic

More dead animals

March 12, 2009

for pictures of seals in plastic nets try this site- try it anyway to see what the wild Hawaii clean up volunteers are doing to save the environment.

There are some good people out there.

Because plastic bags in the ocean resemble jelly fish, and sea turtles eat jelly fish, turtles like this Green Sea Turtle, eat plastic bags that clog up their digestive tract and even kill them. What a way to go! For lots of photos of turtles impacted by plastic bags, go to www.seaturtle.org/cgi-bin/imagelib/index.pl?cat=663&t…

Image and text from one of my faves BAG MONSTER – he is so cool

Heres a film of a baby turtle eating plastic

Professor Larry Crowder, marine scientist Scientists in Texas examined 473 turtles stranded along the Texas coast between 1983 and 1995. They found ingested plastics in more than half of the turtles sampled. … for more go to turtle bags

Swan Song

March 9, 2009

Originally uploaded by jeroenf
I really dont think the swans should be doing this….

 

 




A River Flows Through It

Originally uploaded by Omsel

This creek has its beginnings in the mountains near where i stay. Even up here its banks are strewed with trash. It flows though town and many barios accumulating more trash.

Here under the “national highway” the equitorial equivilant of a northern ice jam forms. Not sure if they throw a stick of dynamite in it or the heavy monsoons free it into the Sulu Sea about a mile beyond.

Its little wonder the pristine beaches are littered with plastic crap 50 miles in either direction from this city.

Close up to come, i can’t believe this and thats a bank next door but nobody sees it or wants to as they zoom along the highway …in another kind of pollution…leaded gas and sorry ass pollution controls.

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with thanks to everyday trash. Visit her site for more info, interviews and a slide show. Its something everyone should read about.