The trash vortex
The very thing that makes plastic items useful to consumers, their durability and stability, also makes them a problem in marine environments. Around 100 million tonnes of plastic are produced each year of which about 10 percent ends up in the sea. About 20 percent of this is from ships …
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Plastic Debris in the Worlds Oceans
The trash vortex
The very thing that makes plastic items useful to consumers, their durability and stability, also makes them a problem in marine environments. Around 100 million tonnes of plastic are produced each year of which about 10 percent ends up in the sea. About 20 percent of this is from ships …
Mais »Awash in the muck of a single-use society
Plastic Debris in the Worlds Oceans
The Limits of Recycling
Ive spent the better part of a week in Japan, now, visiting some of the most advanced recycling facilities in the world. In some ways, its been exhilarating: Japans strict regulatory structure ensures that the most difficult wastes – say, automobiles – are recycled as far as current technology and …
Mais »The Limits of Recycling
I’ve spent the better part of a week in Japan, now, visiting some of the most advanced recycling facilities in the world. In some ways, it’s been exhilarating: Japan’s strict regulatory structure ensures that the most difficult wastes – say, automobiles – are recycled as far as current technology and …
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