#oceanplastics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oceanplastics, aggregated by home.social.
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Young inventor plans to stop 90% of floating sea plastic by 2040
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Plastic waste, the problem many countries export so they don't have to deal with it domestically, is getting more difficult to find a foreign home for.
Malaysia is the latest country to stop accepting it because the sheer volume taken in means much of it is dumped, burned or ends up in the environment.
So more emphasis is needed to
1) reduce the amount of plastic produced
and
2) find local means to re-use or recycle it -
this story of birds ingesting #OceanPlastics does not sit well with my morning’s oatmeal
All we need is for one western government to implement an #EndOfPlasticBottlesDeadline #December2027 #Auspol
no, we can’t ban all plastics completely. there is a whole hip-bone-connected-to-the-kneebone tangle of economic relationships at play — for example plastics are used to store silage effectively and without them we would be losing disproportionate quantities of stock-feed and in turn agri output would be affected carbon footprint blah blah blah… and there is a whole baby industry thing about recycling these we should be supporting, and so on and so on and scooby dooby dooby…
but for the love of all that lives and breathes on this planet we do not need to transport food and drinks in plastic bottles. Coca Cola revealed in 2019 it was making 200,000 bottles a minute. That’s three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or more than — or only —one fifth of the world’s plastic bottle output.
who does this benefit? It makes transport cheaper and handling easier (now increasingly automated) — benefitting billion dollar conglomerates. coke could successfully make the change to glass because the demand for their drink is inelastic.companies are mostly obliged to do two things: make a profit and observe the laws of countries where they operate. one good stiff law in australia demanding change would eventually affect the mindset of the general public…. etc
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-15/birds-crunch-full-plastic-losing-war-waste/105221266
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Rereading the Pew Charitable Trust’s “Breaking The Plastic Wave” report to prep for tomorrow’s visit to Kenyon by one of the project’s leaders, Dr. Palardy. It’s equal parts sobering & inspiring. A tour-de-force of deeply informed, open-source analysis & system-level thinking. In short, no single solution (collect & dispose, #recycle, reduce & substitute) can do it - system change is needed. #plastic #OceanConservation #oceanplastics #reuse #chemicalrecycling
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Plastic is everywhere and in everything. The amount of plastic entering our oceans every year is going to triple by 2040 because not enough is done to cut plastic waste and pollution. Will you sign the petition to cut plastic 20% by 2030? https://www.boomerangalliance.org.au/petition_cut_plastic_by_20_percent_by_2030 📝 #Petition #OceanPollution #OceanPlastics #PlasticPollution
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What a cool idea:
They let you borrow a kayak for free and you have fun collecting floating waste from the water. 🚣🗑🚣♀️🪣🚣♂️🚮
Currently in various cities across Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, and Japan.
Conditions:
- Spend your time on the water collecting waste.
- Share this experience on your social media using #GreenKayak (yes, still mostly the Meta platforms)#GreenKayak #Kayak #Rivers #WaterSports #OceanPlastics #WasteCollection #Garbage #EnvironmentalEducation #Copenhagen #Berlin #Tokyo #Oslo #Bergen #Aarhus #Hamburg #Helsinki
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Big job for small robot
#plasticpollution #plastics #pollution #environmental #Robot #Robotech #Robotic #solarenergy #solarpower #solarpanels #renewableenergy #decarbonization #Argentinas #research #Science #Engineering #Researcher #energy #solar #oceanpollution #oceanplastic #oceanplastics
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/12/21/solar-power-to-propel-small-but-mighty-water-cleaning-robot/
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Some talented rubbish photographer
#oceanplastics
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A space scientist wants to study our polluted shoreline for eventually find an organism that degrades plastics. I am sending her to the infamous Scouriemore which is by far the most polluted site I have ever seen. I made a plan for sampling the different plastic depositional environments.
#oceanplastics #sedimentology #microbiology #pollution