one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
October 18 2009
Plastic-eating albatross chicks
August 17 2009
Tapped trailer
April 27 2009
A visit to the Pacific’s toxic garbage island, where our plastic goes to die/kill. It’s a 12 part video so I’m not embedding it, just start with the link and you’ll see the rest.
September 19 2007
Little efforts do not big changes make“it is a serious distortion to imply, as the top ten lists usually do, that there is any equivalence between these lifestyle preferences and the serious decisions that really reduce emissions”
August 13 2007
Plastic bags are killing us“Every year, Americans throw away some 100 billion plastic bags after they've been used to transport a prescription home from the drugstore or a quart of milk from the grocery store. It's equivalent to dumping nearly 12 million barrels of oil.”
May 01 2007
Small UK town gives up plastic bags“Mankind's appetite for the plastic bag is deeply daunting. It is estimated that one million are used every minute - their average working life just 12 minutes before they are discarded”
August 08 2006
Our shit kills halfway around the world“Klavitter has calculated that albatross feed their chicks about 5 tons of plastic a year at Midway”
