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Incredible photos show mountains of plastic bottles washed in Maldives

Incredible photos show mountains of plastic bottles washed in Maldives | Human Interest | Scoop.it
Award-winning filmmaker Alison Teal, 27, from Hawaii, visited Thilafushi – or Trash Island - an artificial island created as a municipal landfill situated to the west of Malé. 

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GTANSW & ACT's curator insight, October 2, 2014 6:17 PM

Option topic:  Marine Environments and management 

dilaycock's curator insight, October 3, 2014 8:07 PM

Oh wow. Such a disjuncture between what we imagine and the reality. I'm in a school where many of the students are beach-goers and surfers. These images should make them angry and get them thinking (and hopefully, acting).

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Whose job is it to clear up all the rubbish floating in the oceans?

Whose job is it to clear up all the rubbish floating in the oceans? | Human Interest | Scoop.it
I was in the middle of giving a talk on the marine debris problem at a notable Californian marine research institute, when I drank the last of my water bottle, threw it onto the hall floor from the podium…

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dilaycock's curator insight, April 7, 2014 6:44 PM

I like the practical way the author introduced the topic of ocean debris to his audience.

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The oceans are full of our plastic – here's what we can do about it

The oceans are full of our plastic – here's what we can do about it | Human Interest | Scoop.it
By 2050, 95% of seabirds will have plastic in their gut. That is just one finding from our national marine debris research project, the largest sample of marine debris data ever collected anywhere in the…

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