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Ocean plastic pollution threatens marine extinction says new study

Image: Naja Bertolt Jensen/Unsplash Ocean plastic pollution is set to grow fourfold by 2050, says a new report. And there may be 50 times...

World’s nations start to hammer out first global treaty on plastic pollution

“Ambitious” efforts could set waste reduction targets, establish scientific advisory body By Erik Stokstad - A version of this story...

Dumped fishing gear is killing marine life. Yet no governments seem to care

One Scottish trawlerman is so incensed by the dumping of nets he’s come to me – a longstanding critic of his industry – with evidence...

Norway’s most beautiful nature reserve is being destroyed, say researchers

Around 1,500 volunteers, researchers and Mausund Field Station staff have been involved in the huge clean-up effort. - Copyright Nina...

Big Plastic (and Big Oil) have a five-decade lead a.....

Big Plastic (and Big Oil) have a five-decade lead and massive economies of scale that will take a little longer to match in terms of...

Plastic bottles for cosmetics made of granulate from fishing nets and ropes are a game changer

Forbes Magazine Poland 12/2021 page 209 (translated) Two pioneering companies the Omega Plastics and 0:Seanet are the first on the Polish...

OceanHero, the search engine fighting plastic polution

is a new search engine with a mission to fight the ocean plastic crisis by raising funds for initiatives that actively recover...

‘Jenny’ of ‘Ocean Cleanup’ aiming to remove 90% plastic by 2040

Though it appears unimaginable to attain this objective at first listening to, however ‘Ocean Clea nup’ is working wholeheartedly in the...