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KILLED BY PLASTIC... Salvador Brazil pictures and video
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by chunkymark | February 2, 2008 at 07:03 pm
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Global Ocean, has completed an extraordinary
performance, leading the incredible Salvador Carnival
procession in Brazil, which is attended by 5 million
people , the artist pulled a massive fishing net
filled with plastic waste weighing 300 kilogrammes,
8km along the official route.
The event was organised in an attempt to raise
awareness about the catasphropic levels of plastic
ending up in the oceans of the world, killing an
estimated 100,000 sea animals every year.
to see pictures and short video click on here
http://killedbyplastic.blogspot.com/
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brazil news story
http://carnaval2008.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI2302287-EI10736,00.html
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at 19:40 on February 2nd, 2008
chunkymark, for some reason I thought Brazil and other neighbouring countries were in the forefront in environmental recycling, in fact selling their technology to western countries like North America who are behind environmentally.
at 19:53 on February 2nd, 2008
dear barry, thanks for the vote of support. yes i think you're refering to biofuels which brazil are leading the way on maybe?
recycling plastic is a super-complex problem right now...the best option is to use other materials where possible that biodegrade...
did you know that 140 billion litres of plastic water (water contained in plastic) was consumed globally in 2004 and still rising...?
best regards,
melanie salmon
director, global ocean
and chunkymark
artiste
at 20:13 on February 2nd, 2008
No, I am pretty sure they developed a technology of separating aluminim foil from inside tetrapaks used for juice boxes, as well they lead the world in recycling al plastic and metals as well, perhaps it is a neighbouring country. But even if it is a neighbouring country shipping it there must be cost effective
at 09:03 on February 3rd, 2008
This is great. I came across this story on a Portuguese-language site; I could mostly figure out what was going on, but couldn't understand all of the details... I recognized the name "Mark McGowan", though...