by faster | Oct 28, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Conversation DATE: October 28, 2019 SNIP: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is said to be the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world. It is located between Hawaii and California, where huge ocean currents meet to form the North Pacific...
by faster | Oct 4, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: October 4, 2019 SNIP: The most comprehensive study to date of microplastics in California has turned up a mind-boggling amount of plastic particles in the San Francisco bay. An estimated 7tn pieces of microplastics flow into the San...
by faster | Jun 25, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: MNN and Science of the Total Environment DATE: June 25, 2019 SNIP: You know we have a problem when our plastic pollution starts becoming a permanent fixture of the planet’s geology. And that seems to be exactly what’s happening on the Portugeuese...
by faster | Jun 13, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Center for Public Integrity DATE: June 13, 2019 SNIP: Jace Tunnell shuffled forward near the water’s edge, head bent. He was hunting for something that shouldn’t be on this beach near Corpus Christi, and he kept finding it. Hidden in the sand — white, tan,...
by faster | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Inside Climate News DATE: June 7, 2019 SNIP: One by one, they stepped to a clear plastic lectern at the Global Plastics Summit here and talked about what their companies were doing in response to the world’s crisis in plastics waste. Representing...