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litter impact, issues, discussions see also global marine issues, Singapore's wild shores, plastic bags, reduce, reuse and recycle You CAN make a difference Change your own shopping habits Encourage others to do the same ACT against litter that harms the environment It's NOT just about picking up litter... Learn more about Singapore's own Coastal Cleanup effort join our own ICCS efforts, subscribe to the mailing list to be updated on upcoming efforts
Pacific 'rubbish superhighway' going unnoticed By Kim Landers ABC News 1 Nov 07 Everyday objects condemn sea life to death Ian Johnston The Scotsman 23 Oct 07 Seafood caught in the wild may also be unsafe for consumption Letter from Betty L Khoo-Kingsley (Ms) Straits Times Forum 16 Oct 07 "Think globally, clean locally" UNEP and Google Put International Cleanup Weekend onto Millions of Computers across the World UNEP 4 Oct 07 The coast is not clear: tyre and table among trash found By Shobana Kesava Straits Times 20 Sep 07 The foam on the shore is really styrofoam By Shobana Kesava The Straits Times 16 Sep 07 Breaking the cycle of plastics in the ocean Story by Andrew Myers Ocean Conservancy Magazine Autumn 2007 Plastic waste threat to marine life The Observer The Guardian 16 Sep 07 Study ties more marine debris to El Nino Yahoo News 14 Sep 07 Coastal cleanup reduces risk to wildlife By Dinah Voyles Pulver Daytona Beach Journal Online 8 Sep 07 Discarded plastic bags and other debris threaten marine life, experts say Kathryn Young Canada West News Service 8 Sep 07 Hawksbill turtles fight losing pollution battle in Indonesia by Nabiha Shahab Yahoo News 30 Aug 07 Plastic bags are killing us By Katharine Mieszkowski Salon.com Straws not only killer litter, they endanger wildlife too Letter from George Jacobs Straits Times Forum 9 Aug 07 Save the Earth - let's start with styrofoam Letter from Toh Li Li (Miss) Straits Times Forum 20 Jul 07 'Ghost fishing' killing seabirds BBC 28 Jun 07 Jakarta Bay end destination for much of city's trash Adianto P. Simamora Jakarta Post 25 Jun 07 Sad death of whale spurs call to tighten up on litter Neil Riddell Shetland Today 15 Jun 07 Plastic from Asia blights Hawaii's beaches By Matt Wells BBC News, Hawaii BBC 11 Jun 07 Study: El Nino Boosts Marine Debris Risks For Monk Seals The Hawaii Channel 11 Jun 07 7M pounds of trash pulled from waterways By Brian Skoloff, Associated Press Yahoo News 7 Jun 07 Plastic bags ARE the enemy Letter from Sam Bateman (Dr) S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies Nanyang Technological University Straits Times 16 May 07 Rubbish ruining fragile coastline BBC 20 Apr 07 Sungei Buloh rubbish comes from Johor Straits Letter from Wong Tuan Wah Director, Conservation National Parks Board Straits Times Forum 2 Feb 07 Rubbish everywhere at Sungei Buloh Letter from Katharine Evans (Ms) Edinburgh, United Kingdom Straits Times Forum 31 Jan 07 Plastics 'poisoning world's seas' By Maggie Ayre Producer, Costing The Earth BBC 7 Dec 06 Lion's share of overnight rubbish in East Coast Park from McDonald's and 7-Eleven Letter from Tan Ken Jin Straits Times Online 15 Nov 06 Plastic trash vortex menaces Pacific sealife: study By Deborah Zabarenko Yahoo News 5 Nov 06 70 divers help clean parts of seabed at Pulau Hantu By May Wong Channel NewsAsia 4 Nov 06 Plastic Shopping Bag Kills 'Temata', Beaked Whale Stranded in the Cook Islands Underwater times 27 Oct 06 Beaches here cleaned daily Reply from NEA and MPA The Straits Times 3 Sep 06 We're doing our best to keep S'pore beaches clean: NEA, MPA Today Online 25 Aug 06 Altered oceans: A plague of plastic chokes the seas By Kenneth R. Weiss Los Angeles Times 2 Aug 06 Punggol beach not so clean Letter by Gene Kam Straits Times Forum Page, 25 Jul 05 8 million pounds of trash plucked from world beaches Associated Press News Journal online 23 Jul 06 Worldwide coastal cleanup bags 4,000 tons of debris by Jeannette J. Lee PlanetSave website 19 May 05 Study finds plastic in 95% of dead birds John Vincent news.scotsman.com 28 Dec 05 Concern in Australia over marine debris Indian Ocean South-East Asian Marine Turtle MOU website 13 Jul 06 Marine groups in Scotland support plastic bag levy to protect sea life WWF Online 20 Jun 05 Problem is disposal, not use Better environmental awareness would remove need to limit use of bags Letter to Today Online from the Singapore Chemical Industry Council, 15 Jun 05 Worldwide coastal cleanup bags 4,000 tons of debris by Jeannette J. Lee PlanetSave website, 19 May 05 Youth to clean up Chek Jawa Today, 18 Sep 04 You CAN make a difference Change your own shopping habits Encourage others to do the same ACT against litter that harms the environment It's NOT just about picking up litter... learn more about Singapore's own Coastal Cleanup effort join our own ICCS efforts, subscribe to the mailing list to be updated on upcoming efforts More links The Trash Vortex on the Greenpeace website Altered Oceans: 5 part special on the Los Angeles Times website |
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