OrganicAuthority.com - Organic Blog » plastic debris http://www.organicauthority.com/blog Organic Authority - organic food, organic living, green living, organic thoughts. Sun, 19 May 2013 17:04:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Scientists Want Certain Plastics Labeled ‘Hazardous’ http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/scientists-want-certain-plastics-labeled-hazardous/ http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/scientists-want-certain-plastics-labeled-hazardous/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:40:34 +0000 Jill Ettinger http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/?p=11558 Reclassifying certain plastics as 'hazardous' could help reduce the amount of plastic ending up in landfills and the ocean each year reports a new paper appearing in the journal Nature.]]> http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/scientists-want-certain-plastics-labeled-hazardous/feed/ 0 Pacific Ocean Plastic Problem Way Worse Than Believed, New Study Finds http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/pacific-ocean-plastic-problem-way-worse-than-believed-new-study-finds/ http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/pacific-ocean-plastic-problem-way-worse-than-believed-new-study-finds/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 07:00:31 +0000 Jill Ettinger http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/?p=10958 Plastic Pollution

New research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters suggests current estimates on the amount of plastic pollution accumulating in the Pacific ocean are likely much lower than what's really building up.

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