Tag: oceans

The “Ocean Cleanup” Device Is Finally Hauling In Huge Bags Of Plastic Garbage

Randolph Jason

The “Ocean Cleanup” Device Is Finally Hauling In Huge Bags Of Plastic Garbage By Manuel García Aguilar for Natural Blaze GNN Note – Somebody tell Greta to pipe-down – and tell her to quit fusing and get busy! You know, go to China, Africa and India and tell them “how dare you!” where the oceans pollution is originating. ****** In 2013, 18-year-old Dutch inventor Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup in his hometown in the Netherlands to develop a system to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific trash…

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Microplastics Harming Our Drinking Water Is A Major Environmental Challenge

Randolph Jason

Microplastics Harming Our Drinking Water Is A Major Environmental Challenge from Natural Blaze Plastics in our waste streams are breaking down into tiny particles, causing potentially catastrophic consequences for human health and our aquatic systems, finds research from the University of Surrey and Deakin’s Institute for Frontier Materials. Led by Dr Judy Lee and Marie Enfrin from the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Surrey and Dr Ludovic Dumée at Deakin’s Institute for Frontier Materials, the project investigated nano and microplastics in water and wastewater treatment…

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