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		<title>Addiction To Plastic Is Fueling Marine Disaster</title>
		<link>http://www.projectgreenbag.com/blog/2010/08/addiction-to-plastic-is-fueling-marine-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Australia alone we have used almost 14 million tonnes of plastic since 2000, according to the latest industry figures. But tonnes and tones of discarded plastic wind up polluting the ocean and waterways and endangering wildlife. &#8220;Marine debris is now a real threat to marine life,&#8221; said Lydia Gibson, policy manager for marine species [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP Dumping Plastic Bags Filled With Oil In Landfill [Video]</title>
		<link>http://www.projectgreenbag.com/blog/2010/07/bp-dumping-plastic-bags-filled-with-oil-in-landfill-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s worst than a plastic bag in the landfill? A plastic bag filled with oil dumped in a landfill! Oil waste that is scraped off coastal beaches is winding up in nearby landfills &#8212; and local officials and residents aren&#8217;t happy. &#8220;We&#8217;re tired of being dumped on,&#8221; one Mississippi official says.]]></description>
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		<title>No Plastic Day &amp; World Ocean Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No Plastic Day is a world wide event intended to bring awareness of the over consumption of disposable plastic goods such as plastic bags and bottles. It is well known that there are floating islands of trash in most of the world&#8217;s oceans. The huge amounts of plastic trash we all discard daily doesn&#8217;t decompose, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic Company Profiting From Oil Spill</title>
		<link>http://www.projectgreenbag.com/blog/2010/05/plastic-company-profiting-from-oil-spill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 18:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business is great at Kepner Plastics Fabricators Inc., a Torrance, Calif., company that makes booms that help to contain oil spills. The company&#8217;s Meryl Lee told Rob Schmitz of American Public Media&#8217;s &#8220;Marketplace&#8221; program that Keper is &#8220;ordering lots of extra materials and talking about putting a second shift on.&#8221; Kepner Plastics also makes custom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Day 2010: 40th Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://www.projectgreenbag.com/blog/2010/04/earth-day-2010-40th-anniversary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future.]]></description>
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		<title>Do Turtles Really Eat Plastic?</title>
		<link>http://www.projectgreenbag.com/blog/2010/04/do-turtles-really-eat-plastic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.projectgreenbag.com/blog/2010/04/do-turtles-really-eat-plastic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marcos works on tracking sea turtles and he's noted in the necropsies he's done on juvenile sea turtles that many have lots of plastic in their guts.  Santos says that juveniles will eat anything looking for a meal, while adults are more particular]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic Sushi. What Are You Eating?</title>
		<link>http://www.projectgreenbag.com/blog/2010/04/plastic-sushi-what-are-you-eating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knowing that plastic pollution is an environmental and potential human health hazard, and that current recovery and recycling efforts are inadequate, we must manage production and recovery of plastic responsibly through legislation. Bans and fees on disposable plastics are working to protect people and the environment worldwide. ]]></description>
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		<title>North Pacific Gyre Junk</title>
		<link>http://www.projectgreenbag.com/blog/2010/04/north-pacific-gyre-junk-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walk into any grocery or department store and try to fill a grocery cart with individual products that are not made from, packaged, or labeled with plastic.  Though some products, like plastic bottles, have a recovery plan, most do not. Even fewer are truly recycled.  Plastic lost at sea is an environmental and potential human health hazard.]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic Pollution Growth Model By Maximenko</title>
		<link>http://www.projectgreenbag.com/blog/2010/04/plastic-pollution-growth-model-by-maximenko/</link>
		<comments>http://www.projectgreenbag.com/blog/2010/04/plastic-pollution-growth-model-by-maximenko/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a look around you- most of what we eat, drink, or use in any way comes packaged in petroleum plastic- a material designed to last forever, yet used for products that we then throw away. This throwaway mentality is a relatively recent phenomenon. Just a generation ago, we packaged our products in reusable or recyclable materials – glass, metals, and paper, and designed products that would last. Today, our landfills and beaches are awash in plastic packaging, and expendable products that have no value at the end of their short lifecycle.]]></description>
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		<title>In The End, Plastics Comes Back To Pollute All Of Us</title>
		<link>http://www.projectgreenbag.com/blog/2010/04/in-the-end-plastics-comes-back-to-pollute-all-of-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's an oil spill. Only solid, and far more deadly. The average liquid spill of petroleum will kill marine life for a year, maybe 10. But it could take 400 years for that petroleum-based six-pack ring holding your beer to break down]]></description>
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