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2. https://natureempowerment.wordpress.com/2016/08/14/improper-waste-segregation-and-waste-
management/

Improper
Waste
Segregation
and
Waste Man
agement
natureempowermentAugust 14, 2016Country, Improper Waste

Management, Philippines, Uncategorized, Waste Management

THE FUTURE IS IN
YOUR HANDS
3. https://www.eaglenews.ph/improper-waste-management-causes-green-house-gases/
ENVIRONMENT, FEATURED NEWS, NATIONAL

Improper waste
management causes
green house gases
on February 4, 2016

4. https://medium.com/@modernspatialdivisions/improper-solid-waste-management-in-manila-
513224d50b17
Improper Solid Waste
Management in Manila

Modern Spatial Divisions

Follow
May 10 · 6 min read

Written by Bea Fernandez

5. https://www.change.org/p/denr-use-proper-waste-disposal-before-it-s-too-late

Use Proper Waste Disposal before it's too

late

maribeth mappe started this petition to United States Department of Agriculture

(USDA)and 4 others

6. source: https://www.greenbiz.com/article/plastic-crackdown-europe-moves-ban-single-use-plastic
Michael Holder
Friday, October 26, 2018 - 12:30am

7. https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/revealed-the-truth-about-plastic/
Ross Clark
20 January 2018
9:00 AM
Revealed – the truth about
plastic
Yes, packaging’s bad, but what if the alternatives are
worse?

8. https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2018/06/27/youre-eating-microplastics-ways-you-dont-even-realise
27 JUN 2018 - 9:51AM
By
Malcolm David Hudson

Source:
The Conversation
27 JUN 2018 - 9:47 AM UPDATED 27 JUN 2018 - 9:51 AM

You’re eating microplastics in ways

you don’t even realise
Sbs

9. https://phys.org/news/2018-11-plastic-planet-fabric-scientist-archaeologist.html
NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Plastic is now part of our planet's

fabric – a scientist and archaeologist
discuss what happens next
by Sharon George And Matt Edgeworth, The Conversation

10. https://www.alamy.com/plastic-fish-food-concept-image-of-a-fish-cut-in-half-with-a-knife-and-
spilling-microplastics-from-within-the-image-is-intended-to-illustrate-the-image213795593.html
Plastic fish food. Concept image of a fish cut in half with a knife and spilling microplastics from
within. The image is intended to illustrate the
Contributor: Paulo Oliveira / Alamy Stock Photo
Date taken: 9 February 2018

11. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/14/sea-to-plate-plastic-got-into-fish

From sea to plate: how plastic got

into our fish
Susan Smillie
 Tue 14 Feb 2017 17.04 GMTFirst published on Tue 14 Feb 2017 16.00 GMT

 FISH
 Scientists at Ghent University in Belgium recently calculated that
shellfish lovers are eating up to 11,000 plastic fragments in their
seafood each year. We absorb fewer than 1%, but they will still
accumulate in the body over time.
 Contaminated fish and shellfish have been found everywhere from
Europe, Canada and Brazil to the coast of mainland China – and
plastic-eating fish are now showing up in supermarkets. The
question is no longer: are we eating plastic in our seafood? What
scientists are urgently trying to establish is just how bad for us that
is. Another question we might ask: how did we get here?
 inextricable
12. https://thefisheriesblog.com/2015/07/26/plankton-or-plastic/
By: Dana Sackett

Posted by DKSACKETT on JULY 26, 2015

At the end of this article you will get to play a game that many aquatic
species are playing these days: Plankton or Plastic? If aquatic animals
get it right and choose plankton, they get to enjoy a tasty treat full of life-
sustaining nutrition, if not, they fill the much-needed space in their gut
with an inert trash that contains toxic chemicals and does not provide
nutrition. Let’s see if you can tell the difference?
The most pervasive plastics to end up in our aquatic ecosystems are
microplastics. Many scientists define these as plastics less than 5mm or
as plastics that can only be seen with a microscope. While some
microplastics are created by larger plastics (macroplastics) being
broken down over time, many are rinsed directly down our drain and
into the environment from cosmetics and personal care products, such
as toothpastes, soaps, facial cleansers, liquid hand-cleaners, and body
washes. Microplastic “scrubbers,” began replacing natural exfoliators,
such as ground nuts, coffee grounds, oatmeal, sugar, and pumice, in
the 1980s. Products with microplastics are now widespread in markets
across the globe and are often used daily in many households.
The primary concerns with microplastics are that, because of their
composition and small size, they can leach toxic chemicals (such as
phthalates and bisphenol A) into the water, and aquatic organisms
mistake them for food; and not just any food but plankton, the food that
makes-up the base of the food web. Everything from zooplankton to
whales have been consuming microplastics. Just recently marine
zooplankton were captured on film ingesting plastic for the first time
(see video below).
However, there are a number of people trying to help solve our
environmental plastic problem. For instance, many states have begun to
introduce legislation to ban products with microplastics from the
marketplace, and a young man from the Netherlands may have a
solution to the gyres of plastic in the ocean (see the video below). One
way we can help is to stop using one-time-use plastic products (plastic
forks or bags), recycle plastic items properly, and to stop buying
products that have microplastics in them and instead buy items with
natural exfoliators. Microplastics are often listed in the ingredients of
most products as polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride,
polystyrene, polyethylene tere-phthalate, microbead, or something
similar.
13.

Your Fish Could Be Contaminated

With Plastic
Seafood is super healthful, but now there might be a catch...
BY JILL WALDBIESER
NOV 14, 2018

But, fish, you’ve been told repeatedly, is one of the healthiest proteins
you can eat. Many species, including salmon and albacore tuna, are a
good source of those all-important omega-3 fatty acids, especially
EPA and DHA, which have been linked to heart and brain health.

But just like proteins found on land, fish are only as healthy as their
diet—and that diet increasingly contains what are known as
microplastics, which measure 5 millimeters or less in diameter.

These tiny pieces mainly come from larger plastic items that have
been broken down by wind, waves, and sunlight, explains Erica
Cirino, a guest researcher studying plastic pollution at Roskilde
University in Denmark. Some microplastics also come in the form of
raw plastic pellets called “nurdles” (great word, right?) and
microbeads found in health and beauty products.
Last year, the United Nations issued a statement that the world’s
oceans alone contain more microplastics than the Milky Way does
stars—500 times more. Researchers have found the particles in
freshwater, too.