Sentences with phrase «common ocean waste»

On top of that, plastic bags are the second most common ocean waste (after cigarette butts) and they harm thousands of species of ocean wildlife each year (with an estimated 40,000 + pieces of plastic floating in each square mile of the ocean!).

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At the time, while I recognized in the installations in which Tonoshiki threw together and brought into dynamic coexistence waste lumber from demolished houses, driftage from the ocean, abandoned televisions and other domestic waste, and scrapped vehicles on the one hand and natural outdoor settings or orderly exhibition rooms in art museums on the other, a common spirit with the cyber-punk-like junk aesthetic that was then reaching its peak (see the work of Seiko Mikami, for example), the only thing I sensed Tonoshiki was stressing — particularly given that he had been influenced by the social sculpture of Joseph Beuys — was probably that the concept of «reversal» could be found in the act of almost violently recycling useless objects that had served their function and were merely waiting to be disposed.

«There is a moral argument that we should not allow the ocean to become further polluted with plastic waste, and that marine littering should be considered a «common concern of humankind»,» the report's authors wrote.

«There is a moral argument that we should not allow the ocean to become further polluted with plastic waste, and that marine littering should be considered a «common concern of humankind»,» the authors of the report conclude.

«There is a moral argument that we should not allow the ocean to become further polluted with plastic waste, and that marine littering should be considered a «common concern of humankind,»» the report says.