Grist

MAY 28, 2020

“It shows that the ocean is not only a sink but also a source of microplastics,” Melanie Bergmann, a marine ecologist who was not involved in the study, told Grist in an email. Steve Allen said that the same process of microplastic ejection is likely happening out at sea, and in other bodies of water like rivers and lakes.

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Plastics Microplastics Health Soil 145

Unsustainable

OCTOBER 12, 2019

It was recorded in 2010 that “94% of households recycled or reused plastic bottles,” (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2010, para. Then there is the energy investment required. The true cost of plastic bottle production, then, in both economical and ecological terms, is nothing less than staggering.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

By 2030, it expects demand for seafood to be 30 percent higher than 2010 levels. If the sourcing is done carefully, fake fish also should be devoid of the mercury and microplastics that can stem from ocean plastic pollution. This is just a sampling of the organizations exploring the seafood-analog realm. What's next?

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Seafood Startups Meat alternatives Innovation 545

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

Additionally, Canadian Consulting Engineer magazine reported: “Since 2010, no new HCFCs equipment have been manufactured in Canada or imported,” though extant ones are still in use today. Again, its leakage would be harmful to the environment, poisoning living organisms, their habitats and ecosystems.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

When plastic debris end up in the ocean, they break into smaller microplastics, often invisible to the human eye, that swirl in the water column or sink to the bottom of the sea. Ocean Cleanup says it collected 83,000 pieces, of which 50 had production dates, but only found one object dated past 2010. And even if.06

Plastics 98

Plastics Microplastics Pollution Organic 98

AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2021

By 2030, it expects demand for seafood to be 30 percent higher than 2010 levels. If the sourcing is done carefully, fake fish also should be devoid of the mercury and microplastics that can stem from ocean plastic pollution. This is just a sampling of the organizations exploring the seafood-analog realm. What’s next?

Seafood 36

Seafood Startups Meat alternatives Innovation 36

Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Aidan Dresang is a climate justice advocate and digital organizer from Madison, Wisconsin. This passion quickly turned into community organizing and eventually led to his involvement with YCAT where he served as one of their executive directors. "I Karen Dong is an organizer from Watchung, New Jersey and currently resides in New York.

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