BMW To Recycle Fishing Nets In New Electric Cars
BMW’s new, recycled plastic bits could take a chunk out of the Pacific Garbage Patch.
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Ocean Plastic Pollution Or Not, The Show Must Go On
Underwater explorers encounter ghost gear and other ocean plastic pollution, but solutions are coming.
Beginning Of The End Of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch? (VIDEO)
The Ocean Cleanup shared some good news in October. It officially announced that after the successful completion of its “System 002” test campaign, The Ocean Cleanup achieved proof of technology and was ready to return to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to begin cleanup. In celebration of this milestone, a … [continued]
Ocean Cleanup Sets Its Sights On World’s Most Polluted Rivers
After a year spent tackling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the Ocean Cleanup company sets its sights on the world’s 1000 most polluted rivers.
How Are We Dealing With The Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is a major environmental problem, yet, in the context of the many warnings we’ve had over the last decade as to the damage we are doing to our planet, it seems perfectly in keeping with the times. Except, of course, that it’s not even new. Scientists have been officially monitoring its growth since the 1970s.
What Color Should Corals Be?
As the sea gets warmer, corals are bleaching. Coral-gardening projects are now flourishing all over the globe to prevent this underwater mangrove from turning completely white.
Ocean Cleanup Targeting 80,000 Tons Of Plastic Waste In Pacific Ocean
The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch organization, has created a boom and skirt system is says will remove 50% of the plastic trash currently floating in the Pacific Gyre by 2021. Will it be successful? We better hope so.
Campaign Aims To See Great Pacific Garbage Patch Officially Recognized As Its Own Country
The country would be known as “The Trash Isles,” and along with designer Mario Kerkstra the group have even developed the passport, flag, currency and other assets of the country.
Company Known As “The Ocean Cleanup” Aims To Launch Fleet Of Trash-Collecting Booms — Does…
A new company known as “The Ocean Cleanup” has reportedly raised more than $30 million over the last few years, which will be used to create a fleet of floating trash collectors to operate in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, according to CEO Boyan Slat.
Clinton Global Initiative Brokers Waste-to-Fuel Partnership
Practical solutions to recently-understood manmade problems like the great Great Pacific Garbage Patch (and others like it around the world) generally seem few and far between, especially given the minimal penetration such problems have made into our collective consciousness. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t people working on them. Fast … [continued]
