Plastic waste entering oceans expected to triple in 20 years Article Courtesy Guardian 2020 Current and planned waste-cutting efforts will reduce volume only by about 7%, say researchers Recyclable plastic is gathered at the Ban Tarn landfill site in the northern Thai province of Chiang Mai. Photograph: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent Jul 2020 Plastic […]
Plastify It – The Island of “away”
Remote Island Chain Has Few People — But Hundreds Of Millions Of Pieces Of Plastic CHRISTOPHER JOYCE Twitter Debris blankets the north side of one of the Cocos Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean. Researchers found a huge amount of plastic both onshore and buried in the sand. Courtesy of Silke Stuckenbrock When a marine […]
Everything Gonna be Plastic bye and bye
Plastic Pollution: Excellent Article from SLOACTIVE – A company selling active wear to those who use the ocean for other than waste disposal. The Impact on our oceans and what we can do about it. (see: https://sloactive.com/ for more on this company and its contribution) In this article: Plastic pollution: the problem How much plastic is […]
Plastics in the ocean may threaten existence as we know it.
Plastics in the ocean, he says, may threaten existence as we know it. This section of CACOR’s webpage is supposed to be titled “What Are You Doing?” As anyone can see from what follows, and from the Read more link, plastics, both in their use and in their disposal, are a real problem. Think about […]