Cagwin & Dorward Landscape Contractors

Plastics of all shapes and sizes are finding their way down our city street drains and into the ocean.

In the ocean, plastics are drawn into

currents and carried, with other floating debris, to distant shores.

Plastic is not bio-degradable; it can only break down in form. As the plastic becomes smaller and smaller, it becomes more attractive to more varieties of marine life, mistaking it for food. As this happens, it affects life all the way up the food chain, even us. Midway Island studies conclude that most of the Albatross nesting there, now have ingested plastic bottle caps.

Some currents leave the garbage in an ever increasing swirl of water known as a gyre.

View "The Garbage Patch" for an overview of the problem.

View "Synthetic Sea - Plastic In The Open Ocean" to learn more about this little known threat.

Tap vs. Bottled Water - Santa Clara County's Water District tells you who's the clear winner!

Garden -

Garden - Pacific Gyre - A Plastic Garbage Drift