Koko: Special Report on Plastic Tide / Waste / Pollution

Koko sad.  Stupid humans. Special Report: A Plastic Tide The world now produces 299 million tons of plastics a year, most of which ends up in the oceans A hard-hitting documentary from Sky News, “A Plastic Tide,” showcases the urgent problem of plastic pollution and what some activists are doing about it Volunteers in Mumbai, …

Koko: Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time

Koko happy. But nano-plastics should be forbidden. Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time A huge floating device designed by Dutch scientists to clean up an island of rubbish in the Pacific Ocean that is three times the size of France has successfully picked up plastic from the high seas for the first …

Yoda: First Ocean Cleanup System will begin operations in a few weeks and sixty systems will remove 50% of ocean plastic within 5 years

Good, news is. First Ocean Cleanup System will begin operations in a few weeks and sixty systems will remove 50% of ocean plastic within 5 years Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using conventional methods – vessels and nets – would take thousands of years and tens of billions of dollars to complete. Ocean …

Elisabet Sahtouris: Mega Solution for Ocean Plastic Deposits

This year’s top Katerva Award went to young Dutchman Boylan Slat for his super ocean cleaner project for coralling and sucking up plastics faster than anyone else so far. In August, he will conduct a “Mega Expedition,” leading fifty ships between Hawaii and California in the first-ever effort to create a high-resolution map of oceanic …