Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Once plastic products are used and discarded, they can linger in oceans, collecting in large ‘garbage patches’ and harming sea life. One potential solution, a biodegradable polymer called polylactide (PLA), has so far not fully lived up to its promise, showing little sign of breakdown once… Read more →

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Frontiers

AUGUST 8, 2022

Ocean, sunlight, and microbes. Water-soluble chemicals dissolved relatively quickly into the sea and were biodegraded by marine organisms, but this was not true for all of the spilled oil’s components. “Our paper describes the most abundant chemicals that make up typical crude oil and their potential fates in the environment.”. ?

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Every minute, one garbage truck worth of plastic is dumped into our ocean. Between plastics and the health of our oceans? Guest Post by Mariel Price 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Why is that a problem? Well, plastics were built to last.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2015

Junk can be found everywhere—from the bellies of animals and the tissues of our own bodies to the world’s vast oceans. . The first step toward keeping trash from entering the ocean is to reduce the amount created on land and repurpose what we chuck into trash bins. invented by Cesar Harada—could one day scour the ocean for trash.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2022

A report from the World Economic Forum estimates that by 2050 there will be more plastic in our oceans than fish (by weight). While something like a banana peel will biodegrade and return to the earth, plastic waste merely breaks into smaller and smaller pieces known as microplastics. According to the U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 28, 2023

Plaintiff alleges a fake circular economy when several products in the Conscious Choice line contain up to 100% polyester, a material that does not biodegrade and disperses microfibers into the environment, although H&M describes it as using polyester recycled from PET bottles.

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Onya

JULY 19, 2017

One million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals die each year from plastic pollution in our oceans. Recycled Ocean Plastic Eyewear. Sea2see collects ocean plastic waste, nets, and ropes in coordination with fishing communities in Spain to create their Italian designed eyewear. Biodegradable Garden Pots.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. Dilution of salts in our oceans can affect the ecological balance of that ocean.

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Onya

APRIL 4, 2018

From polluting oceans and harming wildlife, to filling up landfills for decades without decomposing, this material is having devastating short term and long term effects on our planet. Buy clothing made of biodegradable and natural fibers. Ocean Conservancy. Clean Oceans International. each month. each month.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2022

From Mount Everest to the deepest oceans, vast amounts of plastic waste contaminate the entire planet. And none of these commonly used plastics are biodegradable. Since then, India’s fishermen have been turning ocean plastic into roads. trillion pieces of plastic waste estimated to be in our oceans. first began.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One of E8’sinvestments, Tidal Vision , derives a biopolymer called chitosan from upcycled food waste such as crab shells, saving them from smothering the ocean floor or emitting greenhouse gasses in landfills.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Two years after that, in the summer of 2024, President Joe Biden joined the campaign with a notable directive to federal agencies to replace plastic straws, cutlery, and packaging with those made from paper and other biodegradable materials. Most of this waste is carried to the ocean by rivers. By 2022, the U.S.

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