What a Whale! What a Waste!

Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:24:44 +0000

Earlier this year a sperm whale was found dead with 59 different bits of plastic inside its stomach, which amounted to 17kg of waste. It made the news when it was discovered that the majority of the plastic was sheeting used for greenhouses by supermarket suppliers to grow tomatoes. Instead of recycling the waste, the plastic was dumped into the ocean. Amongst the supermarkets using the supplier were UK retailers Tesco and ALDI.

Ocean defence activist in Nottingham

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:16:06 +0000

Ocean defence activist (and co-founder of Notts Indymedia) Wietse has spent the past 2 1/2 years as an activist with Sea Shepherd, the direct action sea conservationists. Riseup Radio caught up with him during a brief visit to Nottingham to find out what he's been up to on his voyages to the Antarctic and most recently, in the Mediterranean liberating bluefin tuna. He also spoke about The Black Fish, a new European ocean conservation project.

On the newswire: The Bluefin Bonanza | Interview with ocean defence activist Wietse | Nottingham Eye Witness: Sea Shepherd free 800 tuna

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What a Whale! What a Waste!

Ocean defence activist in Nottingham