The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is floating garbage in between California and Hawaii. According to this study, it is approximately 600,000 square miles. To put it into perspective, that is nearly the size of Alaska. These garbage patches have massive amounts of plastic in the forms of fishing nets, packaging, […]
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Origin of “The Three R’s” “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” was a saying that took off in the late 1970s shortly after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was formed. Since then they worked in elementary school to instill “The Three R’s” with the iconic triangle of arrows. As I grew older, I could easily have […]