This is not news to the world, but is news to me. Humans dumping waste into the oceans has had unexpected results.

Currents of the oceans have accumulated the waste into concentrated zones of floating plastic called Gyres. There are 5 major swirling pools of plastic in our oceans. The most discussed one is the North [...]

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This is a recreation of some really useful information compiled by Angelica Garcia, Melissa Andron and Beth Khalifa for the TrashEd show at Designbox in May of 2006. It’s a great resource, so I snuck in some pre-dated posts that are linked below. I’d like to keep this growing, so please send in other green [...]

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