Sentences with phrase «trash out of our ocean»

The data collected at the cleanups have resulted in national and international laws that help keep trash out of the ocean and inspires companies to produce new packaging that protects ocean life.

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Last year Adidas made headlines when the company joined forces with Parley for the Oceans to craft shoes made out of recycled ocean trash.

What's more, one per cent of total sales is donated to the Trash Free Seas Alliance, dedicated to keeping plastic out of our precious oceans.

Math may help scientists figure out who is responsible for massive tracts of trash in the oceans — and the culprits may not be the obvious suspects.

Key components of land - based sources include litter, trash and debris from construction, ports and marinas, commercial and industrial facilities, and trash blown out of garbage containers, trucks, and landfills.1 Ocean - based sources, such as, overboard discharges from ships and discarded fishing gear, account for the other 20 %.

Nine times out of ten there is nowhere for trash to go except into the ground or the ocean.

Marina DeBris is the pseudonym of a California - based artist and social activist who builds sculptures out of trash in order to raise awareness of ocean and beach pollution.

An estimated 80 % of the plastic trash in the ocean comes from people on land — carried out to the ocean by rivers, streams, and the wind.

Greenpeace doesn't actually do anything — like, say, clean up the island of plastic trash bobbing out there in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Visitors who come across the «Plastic Century» art installation while searching for a sip of water at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco tomorrow may find their options less than appealing: Drink from a trash - filled water cooler or go thirsty.In a piece commissioned by the academy to mark World Oceans Day (and the 100th birthday of iconic marine scientist and explorer Jacques Cousteau), artist Sarah Kornfeld, marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, and futurists Stuart Candy and Jake Dunagan set out to show what a century of plastic has done to our environment — and specifically the world's seas.

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