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5 ways to keep plastic out of the world’s oceans

sudshr47 March 21, 2019

Plastic is kind of like a Twitter reply guy: It never goes away. And there’s more coming in.

Each year, 8 million metric tons of plastic go into the ocean (that’s equal to about one garbage truck per minute), according to a 2016 report by the World Economic Forum, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and McKinsey & Company.

“Plastic is a substance that once created essentially exists almost in perpetuity and just breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces in the environment,” says Graham Forbes, the global plastics project leader at Greenpeace, an international environmental organization.

It’s vital to pay attention to the plight of plastic and implement small changes in your daily life to keep plastic out of the world’s oceansWorld Water Day may be Friday, but we should be working to minimize the harm of plastics every day. Read more…

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How often should we wash our reusable coffee cups?

sudshr47 January 25, 2019

One of the most charming things about the coffee kiosk I frequent every morning on my way to work is that they’ve nicknamed me “pink cup lady.” Recently, the barista apologised and asked me my actual name, but I insisted he call me by my coffee name:…

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This art installation is made out of plastic waste collected from the ocean

sudshr47 October 8, 2018

Plastic pollution is huge problem for the world’s oceans, with an estimated 8 million tonnes of plastic waste entering the global marine environment each year, and posing a serious threat to wildlife.
Many of us though, only really see its effects fr…

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Ocean Pollution Plastic Pollution Pollution Science

The world’s biggest garbage patch is growing. How can we clean it up?

sudshr47 September 21, 2018

The ocean is full of trash.

Whether it’s on the coast, near the coast, in the open ocean, or on the seafloor, evidence of humanity’s impact on the environment is widespread and abundant.

Each year, 160 billion pounds of trash is dumped into the oceans. And then it gets trapped.

These plastics are continuously swept up into rotating currents into what scientists call convergent or accumulation zones where they settle into gyres or “garbage patches” and wreak havoc on ecosystems in every ocean in the world — sometimes in multiple places. Read more…

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Scientists made an awesome error that could save our planet from plastic hell

sudshr47 August 15, 2018

A team of researchers from Britain’s University of Portsmouth and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory made an enzyme that can eat up plastic bottles. They were playing around with a known enzyme made by a bacteria that can break down plastic, and just so happened to make the enzyme even better. Read more…

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New Zealand will ban plastic bags for good

sudshr47 August 10, 2018

In an effort to tackle plastic pollution, New Zealand is committed to banning plastic bags for good.
On Friday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage announced plans to ban single-use plastic shopping bags, giv…

Mariana Trench Ocean Pollution Plastic Pollution Science

Yes, there is a plastic bag at the bottom of the Mariana Trench

sudshr47 May 12, 2018

At some 35,700 feet beneath the ocean, there is a white plastic bag lying in the sand at the deepest ocean depths, in the Mariana Trench.

Scientists have known about the bag since May 1998, when a robotic deep-sea submersible spotted it while surveying the bottom of the trench. But a recent study on deep-sea plastic pollution gave this sad bag — representative of the planet’s amplifying plastic pollution problem — new life.

It is still the deepest known piece of plastic debris on our planet, say the researchers. The trench’s literal deepest depth isn’t much further down, at approximately 36,200 feet. Read more…

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Arctic sea ice is loaded with plastic litter from cigarettes and paint

sudshr47 April 24, 2018

In 2014, scientists clad in thick neon orange suits stepped off a research vessel and visited five different patches of pristine-looking Arctic sea ice. As these researchers discovered, the blinding white ice in the remote north looks awfully pure, b…

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch contains up to 16 times more plastic than we thought

sudshr47 March 22, 2018

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), a massive area of floating plastic debris that is more than twice the size of Texas, actually contains between 4 and 16 times the mass of plastic that scientists previously estimated. And the amount of plastic …

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These people are giving up plastic for Lent and it’s all because of ‘Blue Planet II’

sudshr47 February 21, 2018

Some give up chocolate, others give up crisps, and some stop putting sugar in their tea. But, for Lent this year, lots of people are giving up something a little bit different: plastic.
People in the UK are attempting #PlasticFreeLent, a challe…