Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2024

An aerial view of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as Plastic Island, which comprises mainly plastic, light metals and organic residues of garbage. A new report attempts to better understand the provenance and impact of plastics in the ocean. Plastic, the report (titled ‘How Much Plastic Is In The Ocean?’)

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

Unlike several other Earth Day weekend cleanups going on farther down the beach, this group has been given special instructions that will help them categorize and log everything they find, from food scraps and toys to tiny pieces of foil and, of course, many types of plastic. Is the trash from camping? Is it from fishing gear?

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Martin LaMonica

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Among the ones this year was a series on plastic, the material that’s been boon to modern life but a very damaging one as well. Our complicated relationship with plastic: 5 essential reads. Plastics are hard to avoid in daily life. From its arrival decades ago , plastic has transformed modern life. Rivers and lakes.

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