Garbage is washing up on the deserted shores of Northern Australia. Research shows its a global concern. A garbage island is in the Pacific Ocean. We are consuming so much plastic - some of which ends up in our waters. Fish and birds eat it, we eat them...

1. Garbage 2.0
Warning: These images might offend
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2. I’m just back from Northern Australia
where we were rescuing turtles from predators
I was shocked at how much rubbish
was on the deserted beach...
our sunset supper by the rubbish collection lots of light globes
of all sizes
many thongs/jandles/glip
flops - often left feet
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3. Since then I’ve been researching
‘global rubbish’ and
... opening my eyes to a global concern
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4. The largest rubbish dump is in a desolate stretch of the
Pacific Ocean
nearly a thousand miles from the nearest island.
It’s BIGGER
than Texas -
twice the size
Held together by a slowly rotating
system of currents northeast of Hawai
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5. Fish eat plastic we eat fish
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6. Six times more plastic than plankton
in the Pacific Ocean
At least 80 per cent of the plastic
in the ocean originated from the
land.
Thousands of cargo containers
fall overboard in stormy seas
each year.
In 2002, 33,000 blue-and-white
Nike basketball shoes were
spilled off the coast of
Washington. http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=3870
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7. Each year, a
million
sea birds and
100,000 sharks,
turtles, dolphins
and whales die
from eating
plastic.
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8. “PCB + Plastic + Ocean + Sunlight = Autism”
http://OpenDoorWorld.com/solar
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9. Garbage 2.0 To Know about it
needs people to To Learn about it.
To Act.
get involved. Lead.
Follow.
Be.
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10. It’s all about you:
What you wish to get
involved in?
What annoys you?
(i.e. what do you have a
drive to
see changed?)
Local - National - Global
(any involvement is
contributing)
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11. Don’t be overwhelmed
Positive Language is
important
Things are Good
http://www.thingsaregood.com/
The world is great
We can add to it
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12. Do what inspires you
to
Be Great
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