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A new mechanism is now being used to gather floating debris that is part of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Credit: The Ocean CleanupA new type of net, dubbed “Jenny,” is pulling 20,000 pounds of plastic from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” courtesy of its creator, Boyan Slat from Holland, and his organization, called The…

A new device has proved cleaning up the ocean is possible as it managed to extract 20,000 pounds of rubbish from the Pacific Garbage Patch.  The aptly named ‘Garbage Patch’ is located between Hawaii and California and is estimated to contain more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic; the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in …

An upcoming exhibition highlights the strange and deadly beauty of plastic pollution.

Having had a chin wag with climate advocate and excellent human Varsha Yajman – all I can say is that young kids these days are incredible.

Is this how the oceans will be saved? I think not...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Mark Lennihan There once was a time when leftists at least pretended to care about the environment. Remember the brouhaha over how plastic straws were going to destroy the planet and we had to replace them with those crappy paper straws that literally melt in your mouth? You know, for the sea turtles, or something?  Well, all that was sooo pre-COVID. Get with the program, covidiot! Now, its hip, trendy, and oh-so-woke to mass-produce non-biodegradable plastic "dispos...

With or without the progressive stamp of approval, 'Seaspiracy' is an inspiring effort, filled with compassion — a powerful, irrefutable piece of work.

The Plastisphere: Ocean Pollution May Trigger Next Pandemic Every year, no less than 10 million tons of plastic waste are dumped into oceans - Andrey Nekrasov/ZUMA Wire       Plastic pollution has contaminated our oceans to the point where a new ecological niche of anthropic origin has been coined: the "plastisphere". The bacteria that proliferate there could lead to the next health crisis. Study after study, and each more damning than the last. A study from Decemb...

Have seen a lot of plastics because they get in the sargasso. >> the results of the study are alarming. in its samples, they found similar or greater microplastic to what they found in the pacific garbage patch last year. >> we have to change our consumption and the way we do things. >> you have a son? >> yes. >> when you see the way things are now, are you worried about his future? >> yes. i am, a lot. because i think with climate change, what are we giving them? its insane. >> reporter: being ...

A very long time the worlds consumption of plastic is increasing and just one of the consequences is the great pacific garbage patch. and even products that you might think would decompose easily in a landfill actually take up to a month a cigarette but may take 10 years to degrade. by some estimates it may take a 1000000 years for a single glass bottle to fully decompose in 2016 the world generated 2000000000 tons of household and commercial solid waste that comes to nearly 740 grams of waste p...