Sentences with phrase «for ocean plastic pollution»

An article by Louisa Casson for Greenpeace UK explains that there are three main sources for ocean plastic pollution.

Not exact matches

MLS, Adidas and Parley are partnering to raise awareness of ocean plastic pollution, and the league's young audience is perfect for the project.

While caring for animals affected by human activity such as overfishing, habitat degradation, plastic pollution and rising ocean temperatures, the team seeks to increase public engagement and advocacy along with inspire new individuals to make a difference.

Given the obvious concerns for human ecological health — in terms of climate change, heavy metal toxification, indoor air quality, air pollution, plastics in the oceans, and things like that — there will be a large - scale trend to buildings that start to act like organisms.

People have been concerned for some time about rising plastic pollution in oceans and lakes.

His proposal for an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms received a lot of criticism — but now, just over a year later, Boyan is back with the results of a year - long investigation that shows his invention does offer a feasible method to rid the world's oceans of plastic pollution.

Unfortunately, plastics take a really long time to break down and the high levels of plastics in landfills, oceans and even remote areas of the planet paint a rather bleak picture of the future for plastic pollution.

These sorts of problems have led Charles Moore, an oceanographer and racing boat captain who played a significant role in discovering and publicizing the great Pacific Garbage Patch, to argue that plastic pollution has become a more urgent problem for ocean life than climate change.

With an estimated five trillion pieces of plastic in the oceans, and climate change taking center stage in global discourse, mainstream America is addressing the need for sustainable solutions to the world's growing pollution problem.

Plastic pollution is now said to accound for almost 90 % of all floating material in our oceans.

Along with oil spills and over-fishing, plastic pollution has become a major issue for the health of the oceans.

By turning to locally - grown seaweed as a feedstock for biodegradable packaging, Evoware aims to boost the livelihoods of seaweed farmers while also working to reduce plastic waste in general, and to reduce ocean pollution in particular.

Residents and businesses alike joined the Lonely Whale Foundation to help stem ocean pollution by giving up plastic straws for the month... and the results were fabulous!

Plastic bottles — that environmental bane of a disposable, modern society — can be both an abundant form of pollution in waterways and oceans, as well as a materials source for mind - boggling art.

Click on this slide show for a zooming look at «Gyre,» his effort to bring meaning to the diffuse and distant problem of plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean.

«We're pleased to work in partnership with REN Clean Skincare to help reduce plastic pollution and protect our ocean and coasts for the future,» said Dr. Chad Nelsen, CEO of the Surfrider Foundation.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

But single - use plastics, which you use for a few minutes and then discard, have created a major pollution problem - our ocean is filling up with plastic trash, choking fish and marine life and even entering the human food chain.

Surfrider chapters across the country engage the local restaurant community by educating about plastic pollution, consulting businesses on best practices for the oceans, and help them transition to materials that will truly biodegrade and cause the least amount of harm to our treasured coastlines and oceans.

British producer Jo Ruxton and her team have spent four years documenting the effects of plastic pollution for the upcoming documentary «A Plastic Ocean.plastic pollution for the upcoming documentary «A Plastic Ocean.Plastic Ocean.»

Campaign kicks off to engage coastal defenders to reverse plastic pollution and other threats to the ocean and coasts for the future.

Plastic pollution in our oceans is endangering marine life and ecosystems, so the Center for Biological Diversity is tackling the problem.

A new campaign calls for action to protect whales, dolphins, and other marine species from the 13 million tons of plastic pollution that enter our oceans every year.

After college, she worked around the world in the sports industry, managing projects for organizations including the PGA TOUR, Ryder Cup, NFL and the World Surf League before shifting her career into ocean conservation with a focus on marine plastic pollution.

Ecologists and activists have been vocal about the problem of plastic pollution for years: plastic pollution invades our communities as «litter,» harms wildlife, and 8.8 million tons of it end up in our waterways and oceans every year.

Partly this is because it's hard to beat the blunt biodiversity effects of direct habitat destruction (like deforestation) and partly that is because climate warming is often a slow process, for instance in the deep oceans, where its ecological effects are «outpaced» by the rapidly escalating plastic pollution — admittedly an impossible comparison.

On the heels of the shale gas rush that's swept the U.S. for the past decade, another wave of fossil fuel - based projects is coming — a plastic and petrochemical manufacturing rush that environmentalists warn could make smog worse in communities already breathing air pollution from fracking, sicken workers, and expand the plastic trash gyres in the world's oceans.

No matter how hard my job seems at times, there's one thing that brings me back to my desk day after day, year after year: The knowledge that all these amazing men, women, and young persons who make up Earth Island's nearly 80 projects, are out there striving tirelessly to achieve that one goal that they have set for themselves be it saving a tiny burrowing owl, keeping our ocean and beaches free of plastic pollution, or fixing our broken food system.

So he is campaigning under the banner of The Campaign for a Plastic - Free Ocean, hoping to change corporate, government and individual behaviour to reduce the pollution and restore the oOcean, hoping to change corporate, government and individual behaviour to reduce the pollution and restore the oceanocean.

Plastic waste is one of the most significant sources of marine pollution: According to UNEP, plastic accounts for 90 % of all debris floating in the oceans - with every square mile containing close to 46,000 Plastic waste is one of the most significant sources of marine pollution: According to UNEP, plastic accounts for 90 % of all debris floating in the oceans - with every square mile containing close to 46,000 plastic accounts for 90 % of all debris floating in the oceans - with every square mile containing close to 46,000 pieces.

Replacing single - use drink containers with a reusable bottle not only cuts down on trash and problems like plastic pollution in the ocean, but it also reduces the amount of new resources and energy needed for the manufacturing process.

As an ecotour leader at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, I was simply excited to find one of these intact carcasses so that I could use the opportunity to talk about the environmental problem of marine plastic pollution for ocean ecosystems and the wildlife dependant on them.

As the world becomes more engaged in the fight against plastic pollution, Surfrider chapters will be right there in the center advocating for legislation across the country and engaging with their communities towards a healthy ocean free from plastic.