What do cigarettes and single-use plastics have in common? Most cigarettes have a single-use plastic filter — so smokers get a dose of petrochemicals along with their tar and nicotine. Also, single-use plastics are becoming recognized as a public health…
As we know convenience items made of plastic are killing us. Tasmania has always been known as a state that the Greens dominate topics but now one person has plans to ban plastic containers, straws and cling wrap. Read the…
It is something I just can’t stand. Smokers are sitting in their car puffing away and then they just toss their cigarette butt out the window. I was just sitting in traffic and saw the guy in front was doing…
A good friend of mine and an avid supporter of this campaign, Tim Wuth, rang me a couple of days ago asking who to contact as he had found a sick Green Sea Turtle. I provided him with the QLD…
By Grant Jones, CEO, Nelson Environment Centre (OC NZ) As I write, the sun is shining and the view over Nelson from my office in the Environment Centre is simply stunning. Winters in this part of the world are pretty…
I had an e-mail this week from a friend in France. She had just read about a turtle found with 350 pieces of plastic in it’s stomach. It is amazing to read continual stories of this devastation of life. Humans…
Monday 4th July, 2011. I returned to the Whitsundays for two weeks work as there has been nothing happening in Sydney. On my second trip on Whitsunday Adventurer, I was bring the trip home across the Whitsunday Passage when I…
Last night I was watching the channel 7 news and was so glad to see that the there was a story on Shark Fin soup. It featured Sea Shepherds Bob Barker and their crew, an old Norwegian whaling boat that…
Imagine if you could drive your car using plastic bags. There would not be one plastic bag littering our environment. In fact you would find people walking the streets to pick them up. Who knows, people would probably even go…