Entries for tag "plastic"
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wallacejnichols
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April 24, 2011
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Brad Nettles // The Post and Courier The series: For more stories about how the coast and the ocean off the Lowcountry are changing, go to postandcourier.com/livesonthesea. Just below the ocean surface far offshore floats a huge patch of multicolored bits and squiggles that look for all the world like…
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wallacejnichols
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Jan. 19, 2011
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A presentation at TEDxGP2 in Santa Monica, California
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wallacejnichols
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May 24, 2009
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May 24, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. — An Indianapolis Star article on efforts to make the Indianapolis 500 more environmentally friendly notes that the race recently switched to biodegradable latex balloons for the traditional balloon launch. "But any time you disperse massive amounts of waste randomly with no way to get…
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wallacejnichols
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July 30, 2008
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July 30, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - "Plastic does not biodegrade," writes Dan Haifley in California's Santa Cruz Sentinel. "It undergoes a solar-driven process called photodegradation," he reports in an article that includes a quote from Wallace J. Nichols, senior scientist at the Ocean Conservancy and 1989 graduate of DePauw University.…
