Sentences with phrase «plastic rubbish»

Remote island has «world's worst» plastic rubbish density.

Engineers and scientists will take on one of the world's ugliest problems in 2016 as they test an ambitious method of cleaning the ocean of its tens of thousands of tonnes of floating plastic rubbish.

Mr Cragg, a graduate of the Royal College of Art who spent two years working as a lab technician before he became a full time artist, began as a junk sculptor, working with pieces of plastic rubbish found washed up on beaches.

He also revealed that Balinese people should realize that Bali is not an island of paradise anymore because many Balinese pollute the river with garbage or burn the plastic rubbish.

Yangshuo once was a beautiful town worth a UNESCO World Heritage Site but obviously the development of the last 30 years didn't make the area any better (in our opinion); the view of the karst mountain landscape is interrupted by signs, electric wires, (lots of) plastic rubbish and all sorts of tourist attractions.

A small amount of plastic rubbish was washed up amongst the mangroves, but a lot less than we were expecting, however this may be seasonal.

In the North Pacific is an area the size of Turkey of floating plastic rubbish.

A tiny South Pacific island 5000 kilometres from the nearest human occupation has the highest density of washed - up plastic rubbish anywhere in the world.

The research, published in Endangered Species Research, sheds light on the true threat of plastic pollution to marine turtles, which, other research has shown, also eat plastic rubbish, and marine creatures caught up in it.

«Plastic rubbish in the oceans, including lost or discarded fishing gear which is not biodegradable, is a major threat to marine turtles.

It was also the first to examine how much of what they ingested was derived from human activity — food jettisoned from ships, plastic rubbish, debris from fishing nets and so on — versus what could be said to be sourced from nature.

Lavender thinks that despite a ban on direct dumping, more plastic rubbish must be reaching the sea given a fivefold increase in global production since 1976.

Just look at the plastic rubbish on one tiny little island in the South Pacific that doesn't have any human inhabitants, yet has collected 18 million tonnes of plastic waste just from the sea, despite being in the middle of nowhere.

Not exact matches

Plastic bottles and drinks containers have a significant impact on the environment, with discarded food and drink containers making up at least a fifth of rubbish on beaches.

CALL ME PLASTIC FAN BUT THIS IS RUBBISH

Usually it's harmless, but Sirotkin found out just how much damage rubbish can do when a rogue plastic bag apparently caused his brakes to overheat in one of the most bizarre retirement reasons in recent years.

Sculpt the rubbish into a routing plan, cap it with a water - impermeable clay or plastic liner and smooth on topsoil like frosting on a cake.

it felt annoying just sitting thr watching a bunch of plasTic cheLski fans talk rubbish about arsenal and wenger while heaping all the praises of the universe on mourinho... I got vexed and had a fall out with those guys... We argued at lenght... But I was glad I stood up for arsenal and wenger... It was like the spirit of arsenal dominated me... Perhaps I dn't really hate this man (wenger), perhaps just those attitudes (which he seems to be working on)... I felt relieved shutting those guys up and falsifying their claims towards arsenal... In the end, they got speechless....

Rules of engagement: the rubbish from the offices in our building is dumped in clear plastic bags and left in the hallways to be collected.

«The dumping of plastic bags and rubbish on the streets and into our gutters is one of the major reasons why such tragedies occur and we all know that when this happens it will be difficult for the water to escape.

Different kinds of plastic may be suspended at different depths — a dreadful rainbow of rubbish spanning the ocean from top to bottom — but no one has done the research to find out.

The fingerprinting system could one day provide a cheap way of pre-screening rubbish for recycling, allowing plastic items to be sorted automatically according to the polymer from which they are made.

The unprecedented marine migration was possible because much of the rubbish caught up in the Pacific currents was durable, made of plastic or fiberglass.

While terms like the «Great Pacific Garbage Patch» conjure up visions of floating islands of rubbish, most of the plastic in the oceans consists of tiny pieces invisible to the human eye.

Hundreds of marine turtles die every year after becoming entangled in rubbish in the oceans and on beaches, including plastic «six pack» holders and discarded fishing gear.

RUBBISH TRAIL Plastic tossed into the ocean breaks down into tiny particles that accumulate in large ocean swirls.

Like most residents of developed nations who hadn't traveled broadly in the developing world, the sight of smoldering rubbish piles, which contain anything from food waste to plastics to electronics, came as a surprise to Wiedinmyer, who works at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo..

Moreover, 25.8 million tonnes of plastics ended up in the rubbish, of which 30.8 % completed their life cycle in landfills because this continues to be the first option for waste management in many EU countries.

84 per cent of the 106 experts surveyed on the Atlantic, Pacific Caribbean, Mediterranean and Indian ocean coast, who responded said they had found turtles tangled in rubbish, including plastic debris and lost or disgarded fishing gear.

Plastic trash in the Arctic could harm wildlife and may hint that large volumes of human rubbish are collecting there, says Melanie Bergmann.

Love this article I tell my clients all the time to use a little bit of butter and ditch the margarine even the fortified maragrines are man made rubbish and just 1 molecule away from a plastic christmas tree.

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You know, the ones with rubbish quality plastics, fake wood veneer and an incredibly geometric design?

«I think rooting about, scavenging rubbish and chewing up plastic toys is in the nature of terrier - type breeds,» says Hayes.

But look, if you want some practical tips on how you can reduce your plastic, rubbish footprint, your trash footprint while you're traveling, I've actually written an article, which we've published on World Nomads, so I'll put a link to that in the show notes as well.

Deserted white sand beaches and crystal clear waters offer a rich diversity of marine life, but sadly much coral bleaching and in some areas plastic waste — take a rubbish bag to fill up when you snorkel, and refuse single - use plastic.

The organic rubbish can get moved directly to composting facilities as well as on top of the dump which could become a green hill rather than being the horrible smoky plastic mix rubbish hill...

Even when they are not on an official Debris dive, they still collect as many plastic bags and other rubbish from the sea as possible, showing all of their students that we are the main ambassadors of the underwater world.

Once we can get efficiency in sorting and separating different plastics from non recyclable wastes then this can be a profitable Gili Eco Trust recycling incentive whilst regaining a sustainable island and reducing the amount of rubbish going to the dump.

RECYCLING There is a new initiative that plans to sort the rubbish into plastic, metal and organic.

Every time I throw a plastic bottle or a tin can in the rubbish, I feel a pang of guilt.

So please pick up your rubbish and try to use less plastic in general.

The carried a big plastic bag and they collected all the trash and rubbish they could find, and stashed it away in the bag.

The Gili Eco Trust's own Cidomo (open horse cart) with 3 people will work everyday in the morning collecting plastic and other rubbish.

But the thing is it's not all plastic shopping bags that we all use to line our garbage bins at home with and then get taken to the rubbish dump.

Though Grant has used sculpture in the past, these recycled plastic curiosities are entirely found objects, merely selected by the artist from a bunch of other injection - molded rubbish for inclusion.

Eve Armstrong, Shakeup, 2008, carpet underlay, linoleum, mats, rubbish bins, heaters, trestle table, polystyrene box, file holders, noticeboard, display stands, shelving, label displays, display hooks, foam seat covers, chair arms, paper, clipboards, lumbar roll, cushions, rubbish bags, plastic bags, rocks, lamps, hose, foam, cooler bag, dimensions variable

The group debated whether all the curiosities lying underneath the salmon — china cups, children's toys, plastic jewellery, were treasures or just discarded rubbish.

At the beginning of the 1960s, he started on his series of see - thru plastic cases containing rubbish (like gas - masks).