Welcome to the Green Trash Can - 2010

We are small group of Oceanographers, Biologists and Environmental Researchers, all with a driving focus of promoting global recycling, sustainable living and developing a GREENER planet.

If you would like to join our team, give us ideas or simple motivation, feel free to drop us a memo.

Do you have products made from Recycled or Organic materials? We want to sell them... contact us!

 

Gulf Oil Spill - Satellite Imagery

Oil and Chemical ( Corexit 9500 - toxic dispersant ) plumes reaching the Yucatan Pennisula, Mexico on July 4th, 2010 - NASA/JPL MODIS 250m

NOAA - LIVE CAMERA

BP plans to continue using a controversial subsea dispersant to break up a plume of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, saying that the leading alternative could pose a risk over the long term, the EPA indicated Saturday. The EPA issued a directive on Thursday, ordering BP to find, within 24 hours, a less toxic but equally effective chemical than its current product, Corexit 9500 -- and one that is available in sufficient quantities. The directive also gave the company 72 hours to stop applying it to the undersea gusher. Corexit has been rated more toxic and less effective than many others on the list of 18 EPA-approved dispersants, according to testimony at a congressional hearing Wednesday.

Our research interests are dynamic, streching all realms of Oceanographic to Bio Geographic sciences...

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The Green Trash Can - La Jolla, California and Melbourne, Australia