Kids Views on Marine Debris

Read letters from kids about marine debris:


Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency

Article - Tapped Out

This short article, Tapped Out, succinctly describes our wasteful use of plastic water bottles

Last year Americans spent nearly $11 billion on over 8 billion gallons of bottled water, and then tossed over 22 billion empty plastic bottles in the trash. In bottle production alone, the more than 70 million bottles of water consumed each day in the U.S. drain 1.5 million barrels of oil over the course of one year.

Check out the second page of the article for recommendations on sources for reusable "Better Bottles".

Source: National Geographic - Green Guide