Sentences with phrase «plastic at the source»

By taking steps to minimize everyday plastics in our lives, we can crush plastic at the source and give marine life a fighting chance.

By taking baby steps to minimize hidden plastics in our lives, we can crush plastic at its source and help the world take a giant collective leap into a better future,» said Nil Zacharias, Co-Founder of One Green Planet.

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A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.

Researchers simulated the environment found inside these planets by creating shock waves in plastic with an intense optical laser at the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) instrument at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's X-ray free - electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS).

In an experiment conducted at the Linac Coherent Light Source, the team studied plastic simulating compounds formed from methane — a molecule with just one carbon bound to four hydrogen atoms that causes the distinct blue cast of Neptune.

By now, most people have at lease a passing familiarity with BPA, a chemical found in many plastics, and make an effort to avoid it, yet many of us still miss some of the hidden sources.

It runs at 12,000 RPM on two double AA batteries, is insulated from the power source and has a plastic whip.

There's great humour, knowledge and deference to the source material, and more than 250 little plastic people to unlock if you're that into it — yet at the same time, it's wrapped in a playstyle that's really starting to crack and fray at the edges.

Sources at Ford indicate future models will be lighter, possibly by using aluminum or plastics for some body panels.

The only source of brightwork is a piece of smooth, aluminum - look plastic; at times, even that is dark enough to escape notice.

A reliable source from the company confirmed to me they were working at the project for the last two years, and now all the pieces of the puzzle are finally coming together: better technology (Processor, RAM and flexible plastic screen), ripe software, an affordable price for the customers, and a generous investor believing in the future of large e-readers.

A plastic panel at the bottom can be removed to give you easier access to the USB - C port, which provides 15V of power with the included adapter, and a micro HDMI input for connecting to data or video sources.

Images showing the damaged plastic back on the Galaxy Tab S follow below, with more available at the source link.

A short way down the 5ft cable you'll find a small plastic set of controls that let's you adjust volume and mute the microphone without having to fiddle around at the source instead.

Having used colored plastic forms in my horses from similar sources gathered in Iceland and Hawaii, I jumped at this opportunity to use such emotionally, spiritually and tragically infused material.

There is a simplicity in his gestures, his way with wood, his insistence on found objects sourced from his Niger Delta village and in particular his dissembled canvases, pulled apart one thread at a time that are at odds with an environment defined by imports, plastic and the production of crude oil.

The Clean Seas campaign was launched last week, aimed at eliminating major sources of marine plastic and changing shopping habits.

Méga Vrac is a logical solution to the ongoing problem of plastic pollution, as it tackles waste right at its source.

Hopefully it will also be combined with a serious effort to promote reuse and refill schemes that can eliminate plastic bottles at the source.

A Bulb base, a full wave Diode rectifier bridge rated at over 600 Vdc PIV 1 amp, a 5.1 Volt 1 amp zener diode, a 470 ohm 1 watt resistor (for 120 vac twice that value for 240 Vac), about 10 LEDs (available from ebay) and a frosted plastic cover can make about a 4.5 watt light source with about a 100 watt illuminance.

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.

Emphasizes that further urgent action is needed to address the challenges posed by marine plastic debris and microplastics, by addressing such materials at source, by reducing pollution through improved waste management practices and by cleaning up existing debris and litter;

The Ocean Friendly Restaurants program is picking up steam and Surfrider has set the goal of registering 500 restaurants in 2018 to create scalable impact and reduce plastic pollution at the source.

While there was not much discussion about source reduction of plastic as a solution from the industry representatives present at the conference, many of the attendees spoke up and asked the hard questions that need to be answered: Will you support bottle redemption bills that lead to less litter?

Ripping off the band aid approaches to plastic pollution was resoundingly popular, with the preferred approach to instead dive deeply into lasting solutions we can leverage to actually get at the root of and solve plastic pollution problems, such as source reduction (stopping production of low - grade, single - use plastics) and advancing zero waste communities.»

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Like the movement to tackle climate change, artists, festival production teams and venue management are coming together to tackle plastic pollution head - on by stopping it at its source.

Working directly with NGOs and other beach cleanup organizations, TerraCycle sources the shipments of rigid plastics collected through beach cleanup efforts, capturing these materials for recycling for the first time, at no cost to participants.

Procter & Gamble announced that it has teamed up with us at TerraCycle and SUEZ, the largest waste management company in Europe, to source, develop and put out the first fully recyclable shampoo bottle made from up to 25 % recycled beach plastic for the world's # 1 shampoo brand, Head & Shoulders.

***** This incredible animation shows how deep the ocean really by @sai (1 feet = 0,305 meters) Cleaning up the oceans is no solution to our plastic problem, we need to tackle #plasticpollution at the source.

While Surfrider works tirelessly to keep our beaches clean and prevent plastic from going out to sea, chapters are also working diligently to prevent plastic pollution at the source.

Inside and outside the conference, representatives from diverse organizations such as Surfrider Foundation, Clean Water Action, The Story of Stuff Project and Plastic Pollution Coalition, and many others, spoke with one unified voice to say: «We must head off plastic pollution at the source.Plastic Pollution Coalition, and many others, spoke with one unified voice to say: «We must head off plastic pollution at the source.plastic pollution at the source.»

When asked on why Apple chose a polycarbonate plastic material for designing the iPhone 5c, the source said that it was the company's strategy to offer an affordable iPhone option in the market at that time.

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