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Monday, August 31, 2009

Plastic Bags and cigarette butts

Barely interesting article, except the jail time for selling plastic bags in Tanzania, and this tidbit about cigarette butts being the most common type of litter. Thanks for smoking....

Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, says plastic bags are the second-most-common form of litter, behind cigarette butts. The bags are the greatest form of litter on the globe?s oceans, the U.N. agency said in a recent report.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/19/mexico.plastic.bag.ban/index.html?iref=newssearch

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