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The Ocean Race reports on microfibres in European seas

Envirotec Magazine

The Baltic Sea had the highest levels of microplastics in Europe, double the amount in the Mediterranean?. • New research from the round-the-world yacht race The Ocean Race* has found microplastics, and in particular microfibres, to be prevalent across the length and breadth of the continent. fragmented fishing gear and lines.

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Report pulls back the curtain on chemical pollution in the ocean

Envirotec Magazine

Given the fundamental importance of the ocean to all life on Earth, it is striking that there has not yet been a serious scientific assessment at scale of marine chemical pollution and its impact on biodiversity and marine ecosystems, and the overall health of the ocean. A coordinated approach.

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September is Coastal Cleanup Month with a new look for 2020

AGreenLiving

Register your own coastal cleanup — wherever that may be One conservation organization, Heal the Bay in Los Angeles County, serves as an example of this campaign by helping citizens coordinate their own cleanup efforts with a centralized registration system.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. Arqlite provides their leachate and toxicology reports online. INTERIOR PAINT.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

If the sourcing is done carefully, fake fish also should be devoid of the mercury and microplastics that can stem from ocean plastic pollution. Nestlé cites the sustainability benefits of reducing overfishing and protecting ocean biodiversity as motivators of these projects. New Wave Foods. What's next?

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

Novel entities – Emissions of toxic and long-lived substances such as synthetic organic pollutants, heavy metal compounds, and radioactive materials represent some of the key human-driven changes to the planetary environment.

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Prioritise tackling toxic emissions from tyres, urge experts

Envirotec Magazine

We urge policymakers and scientists to embark on ambitious research into tyre wear pollution to fully understand and reduce their impacts on biodiversity and health, as well as research to reduce the generation of these particles.”

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