Posts Tagged ‘east’

Hello Greenzoners. Have you heard about Midway island? It’s an island located on the northern Pacific – over 2000 kilometers from any continent.
Some time ago popular for the great role it had in World War II – now it’s a calm piece of land with animals that live peacefully.

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Hello Greenzoners, we’d like to share with you with another Eco News, this one’s concerning really interesting and important issue – Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.

garbage patch

What is this? It’s an accumulation of garbage, floating on the northern Pacific Ocean. It stretches to hundreds of miles and, if all this garbage would be gathered in one place, it would cover the surface almost as big as France.
It’s made of plastic, which is not biodegradable, so it flows forever. The garbage comes most of the times from beach (left unattended and then swept by waves), fishing boats and cargo ships.

Not only does it pollute the water, but also is dangerous to the underwater animals. Many sea species were found dead entangled in old fishing nets or poisoned by accidental swallowing plastic or steel leftovers. (more…)

Hello Greenzoners! While gzPhoto contest is going, we’d like to share with you some ideas we recently found. 🙂
You can make many different things using just rubbish. This time we’ll show you that you don’t always need to throw away or recycle plastic bottles – you can reuse them, to entertain your children or younger brothers, sisters. 😉
These are toys made of plastic bottles, such as…

Plastic bottle truck

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Little Eco tip ;)

July 29th, 2012

Hi Greenzoners! You know what? You don’t need plastic bags. Or at least – they are not necessary, and you can get rid off them and reduce the waste.
bin
You can just keep your litter in a plastic bin and put some old newspaper on the bottom to prevent from rotting.
We recommend you to check out this blog 🙂