July 9, 2019
Stories tagged "Ocean Plastic"
June 14, 2019
Interview of the Week: Dune Ives
Dune Ives is the Executive Director of the Lonely Whale Foundation, a non-profit organization raising awareness for ocean health. At the Lonely Whale, Dune designs and leads change-making ocean conservation initiatives to address key drivers of environmental...June 4, 2019
How Can Companies Earnestly Tackle Ocean Plastic?
Marine plastic pollution, as we often mention here, is a staggering problem–one which left unaddressed will ensure that there is more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans by 2050. While companies have announced initiatives to combat the plastic waste...April 23, 2019
Seabins are helping clean up marinas around the world
We write about ocean plastic pollution a lot, mostly because if we don’t act to curb our addiction to plastic there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans by 2050. Boating marinas especially are places where there’s a big opportunity to...April 15, 2019
MLS Celebrates Earth Week With Greener Goals
Major League Soccer began its fourth annual Earth Day week of service last Thursday with a series of volunteer activities in all the MLS cities continuing through Earth Day, April 22nd. Each of the 24 clubs will, during this week, be wearing special adidas x Parley...April 11, 2019
Where does the bulk of ocean plastic go?
Roughly 8 million tons of plastic waste enter the oceans each year and while we see images of this trash floating around on the ocean’s surface we don’t actually know what happens to most of it once it’s dumped. As Phys explained, of the between 4-12...April 5, 2019
The Blue New Deal
There has been a great deal of discussion of the Green New Deal but there is little about the ocean in it. Part of the reason why the ocean has not been factored in is that we don’t know much about what lies beneath the surface. A Blue New Deal would need to...April 1, 2019
The mystery of France’s washed up Garfield phones finally solved
For over 30 years, pieces of a very distinct Garfield phone have been washing up on beaches in Brittany, France baffling locals and environmental groups as to the origin of the once-popular item. Since the phone parts were in remarkably good condition it indicated...March 4, 2019
Windex launches bottle made from 100% recycled ocean plastic, but is it enough?
As Greenbiz recently reported, SC Johnson has unveiled plans to start producing one of its top home cleaning products in bottles made entirely from recycled plastics collected from the world’s oceans. The 100% recycled ocean plastic bottle will hold Windex...January 29, 2019