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2 hours ago · The ocean, vast and seemingly infinite, has been humanity's dumping ground for plastic waste. With 171 trillion pieces of plastic amounting to 1 million to 1.7 million tons currently floating in ...
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5 days ago · Marine plastic pollution is a type of marine pollution by plastics, ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic material. Marine debris is mainly discarded human rubbish which floats on, or is suspended in the ocean. Eighty percent of marine debris is plastic.
1 day ago · That means discarded PLA is highly likely to end up in landfills, in rivers and streams, or in the ocean. It might even be burned, releasing planet-warming gases and toxic chemicals into the ...
4 days ago · On the first episode of UN Weekly, Conor Lennon and Myra Lopes focus on the effect of the climate crisis on small island developing States (SIDS), which are struggling to cope with hurricanes, flooding and wildfires. Island nations are also drowning in plastic, which is washing up on beaches, clogging rivers and, for the most part, is not recyclable and takes hundreds of years to break down.
4 days ago · More information: Kai Ziervogel et al, Microbial interactions with microplastics: Insights into the plastic carbon cycle in the ocean, Marine Chemistry (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2024.104395.
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5 days ago · Initiatives such as the Ocean Cleanup Project employ advanced technologies to remove plastic waste from the oceans, demonstrating the potential of human innovation to mitigate the harm caused to our planet. However, innovation alone cannot solve the problem. Many South Asian countries lack the financial resources and technical expertise ...
1 day ago · Health hazards of plastic: From cradle to grave. BC's Philip Landrigan, M.D., and the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health present a sweeping new report showing plastic as a hazard at every stage of its life cycle. Philip Landrigan, M.D., '63 director of the Program on Global Public Health and the Common Good and the Boston ...
