shareholders who are thinking to make an investment in Pumpkin Patch Ltd. Pumpkin Patch Ltd. are a child-clothing brand that based in Auckland‚ New Zealand. It was founded in 1990 by Sally Synnott‚ who is the current Non-Executive Director. Clothing design‚ marketing‚ retail and wholesale are this brand mostly focuses on. There are retail store all around New Zealand‚ Australia‚ United Kingdom‚ Ireland and United States. Profitability: Pumpkin Patch Limited (PPL) had a very challenging year in 2011‚ not
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founder of the Algalita foundation states that we use two million plastic bottles in the United States every five minutes. Discovered by Charles Moore in 1997‚ the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is a prime example of the amount of plastic pollution that enters the ocean from land. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has been described as a filthy plastic collage of discarded cups‚ straws‚ lids‚ bags‚ and food container’s. These giant patches of plastic debris have also been identified as the nation’s
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did a lot of work‚ try to diminish it. Once it was a project called “Project Kaisei”‚ which devoted to study the ways of cleaning up the trash island. According to the material‚ in 2009‚ Project Kaisei embarked on its first expedition to the Pacific Patch. There are two vessels in this trip‚ one is the “Kaisei”‚ and the other is the “New Horizon”. Each research vessel had a crew of scientists and volunteers on board in order to research the effects that might be occurring as a result of the large amounts
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch. “It’s in the middle of nowhere‚ and because we don’t see it…we pretend it doesn’t exist” The objective of this essay is to let people know about this issue‚ to make you understand why is necessary reduce the use of plastic. And the better way to let you realize how important is this topic‚ is telling you about The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Something that people don’t know is that plastic can’t biodegrade while is in water‚ it “photo-degrade” converting plastic
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OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION: A GLOBAL TRAGEDY FOR OUR OCEANS AND SEA LIFE Plastic never goes away. And it’s increasingly finding its way into our oceans and onto our beaches. In the Los Angeles area alone‚ 10 metric tons of plastic fragments — like grocery bags‚ straws and soda bottles — are carried into the Pacific Ocean every day. Today billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences making up about 40 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces. Plastics pollution has a direct and
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collects in the ocean‚ is consumed by oceanic life‚ and deposits onto beaches worldwide. Plastic is collecting in the ocean. In fact‚ so much has collected in a specific area that it has been given a name “The Pacific Garbage Patch”. The Pacific Garbage Patch was first discovered in 1997 by a seaman‚ Captain Charles Moore. Captain Moore was navigating his boat through a shortcut from Hawaii to the US when he came upon a large span of floating garbage. The garbage was largely composed of
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Technology‚ Society and Environment Man versus Nature Technology Versus Environment Money Versus Wild Life “We have used the oceans as our toilet and it is now catching up with us.” Greg Bossart‚ chief veterinary officer of the Georgia Aquarium The pollution that the most intelligent species on earth creates and carelessly discards continues to destroy the environment of the most beautiful locations on planet earth at the sacrifice of a vast number of innocent sea creatures who are paying
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and any other area one could think of. The pollution is so severe that there’s even a zone in the ocean the size of Texas filled with plastic‚ they described it in the documentary as a “plastic soup”. This area is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch; the water contains forty six times more plastic than plankton. It is one of five zones. Little by little‚ the Earth is running out of space for all of the waste being produced. Landfills are swarming with plastic bottles; they are actually starting
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realize they exist and many of those who do think these are islands of floating debris. Garbage Patches are more like plastic soup and as such are far more difficult to identify and even more difficult to clean up. The real Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Photo by Miriam Goldstein‚ Scripps Institution of Oceanography‚ 2010 EX1006 cruise. Oceanic Garbage Patches‚ Plastic Soup Research Paper Trash from humans is collecting in the vortex areas of the world’s oceans. Finding the ‘trash islands’ assessing
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are? Some of the significant scenes are worth knowing. Here are some scenes that pollution problems currently occur in this world and yet are serious but they are relatively unknown. They include pacific garbage patch‚ Beijing air pollution and Thailand river problems. Pacific garbage patch is the marine litter that is found in the North Pacific Gyre in the Pacific Ocean. The area cover between U.S. states of Hawaii and California. This space is as large as twice the size of Texas State or almost
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