Sentences with phrase «ever ocean plastic»

Saqib Shah: first ever ocean plastic cleaner will tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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In 2010 she hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on freighter ships to the United States, where she worked with the 5 Gyres Institute in California on the first ever comprehensive study of plastic in the world's oceans.

The foundation's fieldwork has revealed an ever - growing synthetic sea where particles concentrate by season, trash commutes in the currents from far - off places, and plastic outweighs zooplankton, retarding ocean life.

The equivalent of a truckload of plastic pollution enters our oceans every single minute, and we know that over 90 percent of the plastics ever made have not been recycled.

The majority of the debris comprises microplastics that are created by the process of photodegradation (in the ocean, the sun breaks down the plastics into ever smaller pieces).

AB 888 will eliminate a significant contributor of plastic pollution at the source, before it ever has a chance to reach the oceans,» said Anna Cummins, Executive Director of the 5 Gyres Institute.

Now, the Rise Above Plastics campaign is more crucial than ever and we have to do our part as lovers of the oceans, beaches and waves.»

I'm doing this because a lot of plastic ends up floating in our oceans, polluting our lands, or just sitting around in landfills for far longer than it was ever used.

Less than 5 % of plastic bags are ever recycled, and those that aren't all too often make their way into our oceans where they pose a threat to wildlife and never fully decompose.