Jay Walljasper, Senior Fellow at On the Commons and editor of OnTheCommons.org, created OTC’s book All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons. A speaker, communications strategist and writer and editor, he chronicles stories from around the world that point us toward a more equitable, sustainable and enjoyable future. He is author of The Great Neighborhood Book and a senior associate at the urban affairs consortium Citiscope. Walljasper also writes a column about city life for Shareable.net and is a Senior Fellow at Project for Public Spaces and Augsburg College’s Sabo Center for Citizenship and Learning. For more of his work, see JayWalljasper....
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Where All That Stuff Goes
By Jay Walljasper
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Plastic pollution is an even bigger problem than you think it is. In the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, lies the Pacific Trash Vortex—a Texas-sized accumulation of floating plastic rubbish. This is a sad symbol of what’s wrong with our out-of-control addiction to plastic, reports the Canadian publication This Magazine.
Posted April 8, 2008
