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Researchers at the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University have found a way of converting waste carbon dioxide into a molecule that ...
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A significant drop in the number of plastic bags littering Britain's seabeds suggests that a charge on plastic bags and other efforts to tackle marine litter ...
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A Roomba-like ocean trash collector modelled on a whale shark and a microplastic filter made from jellyfish slime could prevent litter from entering our ...
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A collective scientific summary has been produced with the Plastic and Ocean Platform : What we know and what we don't know about plastic pollution in the ...
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Check out Plastics Industry Association’s recently launched website and start advocating for your industry. The Plastics Industry Association has launched a ...
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How much plastic ends up in our rivers? And what are the effects on our health and the environment? A group of Italian citizens and scientists have come ...
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The vast dump of plastic waste swirling in the Pacific ocean is now bigger than France, Germany and Spain combined -- far larger than previously feared -- and ...
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01 Global Garbage Newsletter 5 March 2018 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1L5ltpwAf2bfvFuvbL7OTBV7NhdiSruJX 02 Global Garbage Newsletter 7 March 2018 ...
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Globalstar Europe Satellite Services Ltd., and the leader in satellite messaging and emergency notification technologies, announced that SPOT Trace™ and ...
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Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered a way to re-use a common plastic to break down harmful dyes in our waste water. The paper published ...
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A trio of researchers at the University of Manchester has found that flash floods in the U.K. carried massive amounts of microplastics from rivers and streams ...
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Krill in the Southern Ocean are able to break down plastic pollution, with a Griffith University study finding they are unknowingly ingesting micro-plastics ...
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Solar powered 3D printers designed to repurpose ubiquitous plastic rubbish and help improve access to clean water supply have been successfully trialled in ...
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Taiwan is the next nation to make moves against plastic pollution. The nation's EPA announced plans to ban plastic items by 2030, and is launching a marine ...
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A study of the small plastic fragments on South Africa’s beaches repeated every 10 years since the mid-1990s has found that most plastic pollution derives ...
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Enhanced education could help turn the tide on marine litter. Study showed that after using online tools and multimedia, teachers and students said they felt ...
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As part of the study the NUIG scientists participated in a transatlantic crossing onboard the marine institute’s Celtic Explorer vessel. During this research ...
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Launch of new cleaning technology by Winning Brands and DAZZ reaches out to consumers, retailers, environmental organizations and industry allies. Winning ...
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Researchers tracked hundreds of buoys deployed in the Gulf of Mexico. Not only did the buoys not spread out many concentrated into an area the size of a ...
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86 per cent of teenagers have traces of Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical compound used to make plastics, in their body, an Engaged Research public engagement ...
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