Press contact: cheryl[at]createplenty.org

Press releases:
8.24.2010 - Create Plenty Innovates Local Solutions to Everyday Waste

ON TV:
06.19.08 KOIN NEWS 6

NEWS ARTICLES AND BLOG LINKS:
05.21.09 Living a life free of plastics
11.17.08 Planet Pink N Green Junk to Funk Hits the Runway
11.13.08 Portland Tribune Sustainable Life Section
02.20.08 Oregonian Metro Section
06.12.07 Portland Tribune Sustainable Life Section
06.08.07 Oregonian Arts & Entertainment Section
05.15.07 Oregonian Homes & Gardens Section
05.05.07 Oregonian Business Section

LOCAL LINKS:
Washed Ashore Project - Newport, Oregon
Reusable Solutions
Surfrider Foundation: Oegon Chapter Network
SCRAP
SOLV
The Ocean Conservancy
Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition

OTHER LINKS:
Algalita Marine Research Foundation, Long Beach, California
Plastic Pollution Coalition

RELEVANT VIDEOS & IDEAS:
Why We Care About Plastic (12, 6 min. shorts)

Garbage Island (2008) note:plays after the ad
The Story of Stuff (2007)
Synthetic Sea: Plastic in the Open Ocean (1991)
YouTube Video (2007)
Bottled Water Cartoon

PLASTIC IN THE NEWS:
06.22.08 New York Times "Sea of Trash"
06.02.08 Daily Nexus "Bottled H2O Causes..."
06.02.08 National Post "A little more Junk in the water"
05.29.08 The Sunshine Coast Daily "Pollution inspires Sydney artist"
05.23.08 New York Times "A Fountain on Every Corner"
05.13.08 "Cleaner and Greener? It's all in the bag"
05.11.08 Waste Management In South Africa
04.29.08 "Paper or Plastic:That's So Last Year"
04.03.08 "Paper or Plastic: You may pay 20 cents either way"
03.09.08 "Make a difference"
03.09.08 "The flap over plastic shopping bags"
03.08.08 "Reuseable news: Plastic's not our bag"
03.04.08 "Conn.officials mull plastic bag ban"
03.04.08 "Senior Subjects: Paper or Plastic?"
02.29.08 The Northern Echo "A Plastic Plague"
02.10.05 Plastic Soup (includes excellent maps)
02.03.08 "Trash. Treasure. Tide."
01.28.08 "The Chemicals Within"
01.09.08 "China Bans Free Plastic Shopping Bags"