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Think we can't live without plastic? Think again. In 2007 I committed to stop buying any new plastic & I've almost succeeded! Won't you join me? Let's see what plastic-free looks like in 2011... for the health of our bodies, our
    oceans, our planet. ~Beth Terry

the blog formerly known as Fake Plastic Fish
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Resources: Organizations

Web Sites

  • 5 Gyres
  • Algalita Marine Research Foundation
  • Alguita Oceanographic Research Vessel (8th voyage to the North Pacific Gyre)
  • Californians Against Waste
  • Center for Health, Environment, and Justice’s (CHEJ) PVC Campaign
  • CHEJ’s report on what to do with old vinyl (aka PVC):  Bad News Comes in 3s — The Poison Plastic, Health Hazards, and the Looming Waste Crisis (pdf)
  • Ecology Center in Berkeley
  • Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep Cosmetics Database
  • Environmental Working Group’s Enviroblog
  • Freecycle™: Changing the World One Gift at a Time
  • Green Sangha
  • Keep It Organic: smart packaging for organic products
  • Midway Journey
  • OceanHealth.org
  • Ocean Revolution
  • Plastic Pollution Coalition
  • Rise Above Plastics Organization
  • Surfrider Foundation
  • Sierra Club’s The Green Life
  • Think Beyond Plastics
  • Trash Patch
  • Turning The Tides: Alaskan organization protecting the oceans from plastic
  • The Watershed Project

Facebook Pages and Groups

  • Ocean Revolution
  • Plastic Pollution Coalition
  • Stop Plastic Pollution: The Great Garbage Patch
  • Think Outside the Bottle

 

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