Sentences with phrase «recycled ocean waste»

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We are committed to helping transform the recycling system, seek innovations to change the materials we use, such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and work to recover the unmanaged waste that is ending up in the environment and, more specifically, our rivers and oceans.

«This means that we need to prevent plastic from entering the oceans in the first place through better waste management, more reuse and recycling, better product design and material substitution.»

Much of the plastic that does not end up in landfill or go through other waste management pathways (such as recycling or incineration) is thought to end up in the ocean.

Plus, part of the fabric used features Parley Ocean Plastic, made from recycled coastal waste before it's hit the oOcean Plastic, made from recycled coastal waste before it's hit the oceanocean.

They're cut from 100 % ECONYL fabric, which — through a specialized production process — has been woven together from recycled fishing nets and ocean waste...

There were a number of «biomes» constructed - Desert, Savannah, Ocean, Rain Forest, Agriculture - that were to be maintained by the «Biospherans» and would, in turn, maintain the biosphere, providing water, food, oxygen, and efficient waste recycling.

At the time, while I recognized in the installations in which Tonoshiki threw together and brought into dynamic coexistence waste lumber from demolished houses, driftage from the ocean, abandoned televisions and other domestic waste, and scrapped vehicles on the one hand and natural outdoor settings or orderly exhibition rooms in art museums on the other, a common spirit with the cyber-punk-like junk aesthetic that was then reaching its peak (see the work of Seiko Mikami, for example), the only thing I sensed Tonoshiki was stressing — particularly given that he had been influenced by the social sculpture of Joseph Beuys — was probably that the concept of «reversal» could be found in the act of almost violently recycling useless objects that had served their function and were merely waiting to be disposed.

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.

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.

The demonstration vessel seen below is our «Proof of Concept» boat that has shown we can harvest plastic and other waste from the 5 garbage Gyres in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans and (via third parties) recycle that waste into clean diesel fuel for shipping and new plastic products.

«By highlighting plastic waste and recycling it into an «art work» we hope that with «The Midden» we can help focus attention on the tsunami of plastic that is engulfing our oceans and strangling marine life,» write Christine and Margaret Wertheim about their large decorative heap called «The Midden».

With a shocking 37 per cent of Brits admitting they don't think their recycling efforts make any difference, it's no surprise that there are more than 5 TRILLION pieces of plastic waste in our oceans.