Cleaning up the ocean荷兰小伙清除海洋垃圾Boyan Slat has been dreaming of cleaning up the world's oceans ever since hewas a teenager.In 2010, the 16-year-old Dutch boy went on a diving vacation in Greece and wassurprised. “I saw more plastic bags than fish in the water," he said.From...
CleaningUptheOcean CONTENTS 01Pre-reading 02Whilereading Readingtasks Languagepoints 目录 Practice 03Afterreading Whatdoyouknowaboutplasticpollution?Everyyear,lotsofplasticgoesintotheoceans.Therearefivehugeareasintheworld’soceansthatarea“soup”offloatingrubbish.Oneoftheseareas,theGreatPacificGarbagePatch(GPGP),...
Boyan Slat has been dreaming of cleaning up the world's oceans ever since he was a child.In 2010, the 16-year-old boy went on a vacation in Greece.“I saw more plastic bags than fish in the water," he said. He realised there are more and more ocean pollution these years. In 2013...
Plastics have brought huge benefits to our society. But with those benefits come environmental problems. Too often, plastic ends up as waste, as marine litter polluting the oceans, or as litter on our beaches.
Letters to the Editor: Cleaning up ocean garbage isn’t enough. We must end our plastic addiction To the editor:To combat plastic pollution in our oceans, we need to cut back on plastic production, not try to capture the endless stream of it. A recent article ...
B Boyan Slat has been dreaming of cleaning up the world's oceans for a long time.At the age of 16, he went on a diving(潜水) vacation in Greece and was shocked.“I saw more plastic bags than fish in the water,” he said.From then on, Slat began to pay more attention to ocean...
The Great Bubble Barrier, a Dutch social enterprise, uses bubbles to stop plastic in rivers from getting into the oceans. A bubble curtain is created by pumping air through a perforated tube on the bottom of the waterway. That creates an upward current which directs plastic to the surface. ...
(D)Boyan Slat has been dreaming ofcleaning up the world's oceans(海洋) eversince he was a child.In 2010, the 16-year-old boy wenton a vacation in Greece. “I saw more plastic bags than fishin the water," he said. He realised there are more and moreocean pollution these years.In ...
Boyan Slat has been dreaming of cleaning up the world’s oceans(海洋)ever since he was a child. In 2010, the 16-year-old boy went on a vacation in Greece. “I saw more plastic bags than fish in the water.” he said. He realized there are more and more ocean pollution these years...
good way of putting our sustainability strategy,Our World, Our Future, into practice. As well as cleaning up the riverbank and the immediate area, we’re also preventing harmful waste from reaching the sea, thereby helping protect life in the oceans, which is one of our core sustainability ...