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“Leash the Lid – Support AB-319” Campaign Video (2018)

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Video Synopsis This powerful advocacy video from the Save the Albatross Coalition makes an urgent case for California Assembly Bill 319, which would require beverage manufacturers to tether bottle caps to containers. The video combines stark statistics about plastic pollution with compelling imagery of marine wildlife suffering from plastic ingestion. Key Messages The Crisis in…

Want to know how YOU can save the Albatross?
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Want to know how YOU can save the Albatross?

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1) Call your California Legislator to let them know that you support AB 319 by Assembly Member Stone. The bill would require that plastic beverage container caps be attached to the bottle, or designed such that the beverage is consumed without removing the cap. This bill is up in its first Committee – Assembly Natural…

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Invasion of the biosphere by synthetic polymers: What our current knowledge may mean for our future

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Author: Captain Charles J. Moore In 1974, a member of the Council of the British Plastics Federation and a fellow of the Plastics Institute, stated that “Plastics litter is a very small proportion of all litter and causes no harm to the environment except as an eyesore”(Derraik, 2002). It has taken less than fifty years…

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Richard Anthony Zero Waste Pioneer Continues to Work on Global and Local Issues

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Richard is an early zero waste pioneer having started at Cal State University Long Beach – Recycling Center, a model program and training ground for California Recycling activists. He went on to co-found the California Resource Recovery Association (CRRA) and became its first president in 1975. Richard also co-founded the National Recycling Coalition (NRC), Zero…