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Hace 4 días · Every chapter in the book explores a different topic, with the more obvious ones such as illegal fishing, deep-sea mining, and plastic pollution balanced by those that get far less press. This latter category includes how we manage the ocean’s genetic resources, the dumping of space waste as it falls out of orbit, and the rapidly expanding field of marine carbon dioxide removal.
Hace 5 días · Single-use plastics are illegal in some parts of the world; Every minute of every day a truckload of plastic is dumped into the ocean; 73% of beach litter worldwide is plastic; One million plastic bottles are bought every minute; There could be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050; Up to 95% of plastic polluting oceans is ...
Hace 2 días · Plastic Pollution — A Multi-Faceted Problem. A new study from Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto shows that the average American adult could ingest as many as 3.8 million ...
Hace 20 horas · A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers from, among others, NIOZ published their results ...
Hace 4 días · [TEXT: Clare Romanik, Lead Ocean Plastics and Urban Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development] So what we have to do is prevent it from getting in the ocean in the first place. Clean Cities, Blue Ocean was designed to do that in a systematic and a sustained manner. Clean Cities, Blue Ocean is actually part of a larger initiative.
Hace 4 días · You’ve no doubt heard, that at current rates, by 2050 there will be more plastic in the Ocean than fish. As the pre-eminent report, Breaking the Plastic Wave, put it, plastic pollution...
Hace 20 horas · Plastic pollution has become one of the most critical environmental challenges of our time. From remote oceanic expanses to urban waterways, plastic debris is pervasive, impacting wildlife and ecosystems, and ultimately, our health. However, while the scale of the problem is daunting, there are tangible actions we can take to mitigate plastic waste and protect our planet.
