Biometrics checks using finger prints can be fooled, one only has to have the money for skin surgery to some US$15,000 to fool immigration is a worth while price to pay. " A Chinese woman managed to...
"It's one of the bigger pieces of trash in a sprawling mass of garbage-littered water, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where most of the plastic looks like snowy confetti against the deep blue of the...
created by mtippett | 16 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago 607 views | 28 recommendations | 3 comments
A new study shows that plastic waste floating in oceans, like those found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, may decompose much faster than expected and release toxic substances into the ocean. This comes as a surprise as plastic was believed to be relatively stable, and...
created by Scott Wu | 17 wks ago 127 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This is unusual for rubbish to be left on a tourism location in South Wales, UK. The Welsh Assembly Government, is currently consulting people in order to pass legislation regarding this sort of behaviour and...
created by YODspica | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago 52 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
By, Uwe Paschen. It is Chiba Day here in Narita, Chiba, Japan. Tomorrow my wife will not have to go and teach in Narita and I have no field work due to much rain and flooding nor any meetings in Tokyo. In...
created by Paschen | 27 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago 722 views | 88 recommendations | 41 comments
There is an island of trash floating in the North Pacific Ocean that is made up entirely of six million tonnes discarded plastic. It can't break down and it's twice the size of Texas. There is a mission set to...
created by Amy Judd | 32 wks ago | updated 32 wks ago 2595 views | 41 recommendations | 5 comments
Apart from shopping, buying and getting products soon is possible now due to e-marketing and fast growing delivery services. Most of the products available online may also be delivered within short time. Its hard to believe isn't it? But its true and you will find it working...
It's funny how the mind works. I've always thought that I prefer bottled water to tap water, and prefer the water that pours from the door of my refrigerator to bottled water. An interesting and somewhat disturbing...
opinion by Swan | 39 wks ago | updated 39 wks ago 1018 views | 78 recommendations | 24 comments
" By JAMES KINDALL Published: March 4, 2009 MOST people groan at the thought of hauling their returnable bottles to the supermarket. Margo LaCarrubba considers it a gratifying domestic adventure. First of all,...
In what could have been the first statewide ban on plastic bags in the United States, yesterday a state Senate bill was defeated so that shoppers in Colorado will be able to keep using plastic bags. The people who...
created by Amy Judd | 42 wks ago | updated 42 wks ago 263 views | 7 recommendations | 6 comments
This is an ocean planet. On Vancouver Island we have been blessed with the bounty from the ocean. Oysters lay on the clean beaches. Children play on the sandy beaches in the summer. Dog...
Sears will start selling business suits made out of recycled plastic bottles in Spring 2009. It's called EcoGir and it's designed for the fashionable male. They're constructed out of recycled plastic bottle chips...
created by Amy Judd | 43 wks ago | updated 42 wks ago 426 views | 24 recommendations | 7 comments
China has been one of the largest importers of waste material. But as the world economy has slowed, there has been a severe drop in demand. Biz Journal quoted Brian Scaffer of Blue Mountain Recycling, located in...
created by weirdchina | 46 wks ago | updated 46 wks ago 993 views | 9 recommendations | 11 comments
City government of Indian capital New Delhi has banned usages of plastic bag in the city and violaters would be imprisoned for five years. Officials in the Indian capital has banned use, storage and sale of...
created by Sanjay Jha | 47 wks ago | updated 47 wks ago 980 views | 23 recommendations | 6 comments
In June 2009, Toronto will become the first major Canadian metropolis to enact a bylaw forcing all retailers to charge at least five cents per plastic bag when buying groceries. "I think attitudes are...