Tag: plastic pollution
Innovative Canadian scheme to minimise fishing gear plastic pollution. Fisheries and Oceans Canada has challenged small businesses across Canada to find innovative ways to prevent plastic waste from entering our aquatic environments, to help clean ...
Swedish coastal clean up initiative. Concordia Maritime’s second coastal clean-up initiative in the Gothenburg archipelago attracted great interest. More than one hundred people came along to help pick up rubbish from the shoreline and filled ...
Biodegradable plastic developed that will protect our seas. Plastic pollution problem is getting severe and the microplastic problem in the marine environment is becoming a devastating issue, with it being said that over 150 million ...
Plastic fragments being consumed by sea anemones. Tiny fragments of plastic in the ocean are consumed by sea anemones along with their food, and bleached anemones retain these microfibres longer than healthy ones, according to ...
Exhibition showcases student artwork created from marine plastic. A new art exhibition ‘The Circular Revolution -Towards Zero’ involving 12 primary schools across Clare has been designed and curated by Carmel Madigan, a professional artist and ...
SW to pioneer marine plastic waste reduction. Pioneers on reducing plastic waste, backed by £1 million of government funding, are seeking to revolutionise the way the south west produce, recycle and utilise plastics. The programme ...
M&S launches new plastic take back scheme. Marks & Spencer is taking action to prevent plastic waste from going to landfill, including from seafood packaging, by launching a new initiative, which will enable customers to ...
Plastics are being glued together in the ocean. Natural materials excreted by bacteria are glueing micro and nano plastics together so that they form larger masses in our oceans, scientists have discovered. The biopolymers are ...
Plastic in all British marine mammals. Microplastics have been found in the guts of every marine mammal examined in a new study of animals washed up on Britain’s shores. Researchers from the University of Exeter and Plymouth ...
Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food & the Marine, Michael Creed T.D., has announced Ireland’s Clean Oceans Initiative and called for the participation of the entire Irish trawl fishing fleet in the scheme by 31st December 2019. His ...
Sea Pact tackles problem of global ghost fishing gear. Sea Pact, an innovative association of 10 leading North American seafood companies working together to drive industry sustainability progress has announced that they have joined the ...
New collaboration addresses marine plastic pollution. The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is co-operating with four other research institutions to investigate the impact of plastic in the ocean and the need for new legislation Plastics ...
Canada emphasises importance of whale protection. As a nation with three ocean coasts, Canada depends on healthy marine ecosystems. Fisheries and Oceans Canada states: “Our oceans create good jobs, and are an important habitat for our ...
Praise for University’s marine microplastics work. The University of Plymouth’s world-leading research into the causes and effects of microplastics has been named as one of the UK’s 100 best university breakthroughs. The award-winning work of Professor ...
Study reveals fast uptake of nanoparticles by shellfish. A ground-breaking study has shown it takes a matter of hours for billions of minute plastic nanoparticles to become embedded throughout the major organs of a marine ...
Research has found. microplastic toxins leave shellfish at mercy of predators. The chemical cocktail suppresses periwinkles’ ability to avoid crabs that eat them and disrupts the food chain. According to an article in The Guardian. ...
Dutch Harbor contributing to net recycling. More shipping containers filled with plastic fishing nets, crab lines and other gear left Dutch Harbor in November for recycling plants in Europe, and two more will soon follow ...
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