Sentences with phrase «of ocean plastic pollution»

The source of ocean plastic pollution is usually assumed to be mismanaged waste — those plastic bags and containers that get missed by the recycling truck or blown away in the wind.

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

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Sourced from Bureo, an emerging venture developing innovative solutions to prevent ocean plastic pollution, this is the first tangible product of its new partnership and marks the first product available to purchase from the consortium of companies under the NextWave initiative.

But then she'll have to deal with overfishing, pollution (all the crap we pump into the oceans and the floating islands of plastic), annoying speedboats, etc..

By Charlotte Taylor, marketing manager, Beatson Clark WITH plastic filling our oceans, and awareness growing of the need to protect our planet from pollution,..

In recent years, the fight against ocean plastic pollution has gone from a preoccupation of marine scientists to a movement embraced by everyone from schoolchildren to Queen Elizabeth II, galvanized by images of trash - strewn seas and sea turtles choking on plastic straws and other consumer castaways.

With its new Shedd the straw campaign, Shedd hopes to inspire Chicagoans to remove single - use plastic straws from their everyday life to reduce the amount of plastic pollution that enters our oceans, lakes and rivers.

The sculptures represent the first installment of a traveling exhibit, Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea, which illustrates how plastic pollution has become one of the gravest threats facing ocean and freshwater animals, while helping the public understand what they can do to be a part of the solution.

With its new SheddTheStraw campaign, Shedd hopes to inspire Chicagoans to remove single - use plastic straws from their everyday life to reduce the amount of plastic pollution that enters our oceans, lakes and rivers.

Shedd Aquarium is one of 19 accredited aquariums across the United States announcing the joint creation of a new Aquarium Conservation Partnership (ACP) focused on addressing one of the gravest threats facing ocean and freshwater animals — plastic pollution.

Using only 100 % recyclable materials, students from preschool to high school created the wreaths after learning how recycling or using reusable products can help protect our planet's oceans, lakes and rivers from the harms of plastic pollution.

«We realised that our buoys are in fact a kind of marine debris,» says Nikolai Maximenko of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, who collaborated with 5 Gyres researchers to identify which areas of the ocean should have especially high levels of plastic pollution.

But current evidence suggests that plastic pollution is as prevalent in land and freshwater ecosystems as it is in the oceans, where it's found «from the equator to the poles,» says Rochman, author of a separate commentary on the state of plastic pollution research published in the April 6 Science.

Marine plastic pollution slowly degrades and has spread to every corner of the world's oceans, from remote islands to the ocean floor.

Kerry further outlined the impacts of pollution from farm runoff, which causes algae blooms and dead zones in the oceans, the massive buildup of plastic waste, and illegal fishing.

But probably, most of the impacts taking place due to plastic pollution in the oceans are not yet known.»

The study — one of very few to examine plastics in freshwater lakes — indicates that like oceans, freshwater habitats are also affected by plastic pollution.

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.

That's according to scientists who released research on Thursday estimating that a staggering 8 million metric tones of plastic pollution enter the oceans each year from the world's 192 coastal countries based on 2010 data.

As plastic in the world's oceans continues to rise, researchers are pinpointing sources of pollution so that conservation efforts can stem the flow.

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.

Ocean Plastic Will Be Found in 99 Percent of Seabirds by 2050 Plastic pollution in the ocean is like a floating minefield to marine life, from microscopic plankton to giant whOcean Plastic Will Be Found in 99 Percent of Seabirds by 2050 Plastic pollution in the ocean is like a floating minefield to marine life, from microscopic plankton to giant whocean is like a floating minefield to marine life, from microscopic plankton to giant whales.

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.

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.

Besides often being the healthier choice, meal prepping can save you from single - use containers — which make up a huge amount of the hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic pollution in our oceans right now.

One of the problems it faces is plastic pollution which is all too prevalent in our seas and oceans.

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.

Threats made by water pollution, plastics and debris in the ocean, gill net entanglement, oil spills, overharvesting of fisheries, toxins, and pesticides affect even isolated areas like Point Bennett.

Whether the installation represents the turbulent journey associated with cancer diagnosis or the infinite life of plastic garbage in our oceans, the installation's place suspended in the air serves as a symbolic reminder that pollution and cancer are issues hanging over all of our heads.

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

Plastics have been a boon to industry, but are now the bane of the planet, even as plastic pollution is expected to continue unabated (and even increase), with experts now predicting that by 2050 «the oceans will contain more plastic than fish by weight..»

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.

Salt samples from 8 different countries revealed the presence of plastic contaminants from ocean pollution.

The company is based in Martha's Vineyard, MA, but it sources its ocean plastic from Haiti, a beautiful Caribbean island that struggles terribly with plastic pollution, partly due to lack of adequate recycling facilities, but also because the ocean tides relentlessly push plastic waste from the rest of the world onto its beaches.

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.

While I share many of his fears and can relate to a sense of despair in light of continued growth in CO2 emissions, habitat destruction and plastic pollution in the oceans, I see many reasons why it is absolutely necessary to explore and pursue the possibility of a «good Anthropocene.»

Much of the film looks at ocean plastic pollution in general, but that's a valuable message, too.

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.

Which seems to announce the coming of what will possibly be called the South Pacific Garbage Patch: The fifth area of the ocean to present plastic pollution surveyed by 5 Gyres.

Much more critical is the continuing pollution worldwide, particularly in the developing countries, of garbage, plastic rotting away, untreated sewage in rivers and streams and oceans, groundwater overdrafts, etc..

Even though these findings suggest that the South Pacific has not escaped the impact of marine plastic pollution, the fact that we're still finding small amounts of this petrol based material and not seeing so much debris floating around is also indicating that this part of the ocean may be in fact different from others explored by 5 Gyres.

Individuals and communities planning beach and river cleanups the day of the Festival and every time of year can tackle ocean pollution from another angle through TerraCycle's Beach Plastic Cleanup Program.

Though I am concerned and devoted to the cause of reducing plastic pollution in the ocean I find the distortion and alarmism of advocacy groups in this arena disturbing.

«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.

The primary goal of the program was to build a more integrated, diverse community of next generation leaders equipped with the tools to drive local, sustainable solutions to plastic pollution; another was to illustrate the irrefutable connection between the health of our oceans, lands, and human life.

That was the question answered by the development of The Solar Plastic Kiln, which uses the power of the sun to melt common plastic ocean pollution into useful materials like bricks or Plastic Kiln, which uses the power of the sun to melt common plastic ocean pollution into useful materials like bricks or plastic ocean pollution into useful materials like bricks or boards.

In 2014, international scientists collaborated with 5 Gyres to publish the first Global Estimate of Marine Plastic Pollution, and determined that 5.25 trillion particles of «plastic smog» surface pollution — weighing in at 269,000 tons — pollute our oceans worPlastic Pollution, and determined that 5.25 trillion particles of «plastic smog» surface pollution — weighing in at 269,000 tons — pollute our oceans worplastic smog» surface pollution — weighing in at 269,000 tons — pollute our oceans worldwide.

An organization whose mission is to «conduct research and communicate about the global impact of plastic pollution in the world's oceans and employ strategies to eliminate the accumulation of plastic pollution in the 5 subtropical gyres» is 5 Gyres.