The family sits among piles of UNASSEMBLED PIZZA BOXES and folds them in silence. The crunch of cardboard is the only sound as the cheap Pizza Time logo comes in and goes out of the foreground. They hear a truck rattling closer. Through the window, they see a STREET FUMIGATION TRUCK sp...
Garbage-sorting not only can protect the environment but also save resources. How should we sort garbage better? Doing a bit of research before you sort your trash can make all the difference. Recycling rules are different in different places. But no matter where you live, here are a few ...
"We are trying to do our bit to take whatever we can out of the waterto reduce this impact...Jersey does not see many sea turtles, but because of tidal action, currents, winds etc., our litter can impact on marine animals across the ocean."Sam Andrews...
The article “Trashing the Oceans,” by Thomas Hayden, which was published in U.S. News and World Report, states how the oceans are being polluted by the trash going within it. Another article “Managing Marine Plastic Pollution,”John H. Tibbetts, was published in Environmental Health Perspec...
Humans are consuming plastics through the seafood we eat. I could understand why some people see ocean plastic as a disaster, worth mentioning in the same breath as climate change. But ocean plastic is not as complicated as climate change. There are no ocean trash deniers (否认者), at ...
根据第一段的“My husband and I go to as many beach cleanups as we can.(我丈夫和我尽可能多地去清理海滩)”和第三段的“My first time joining a beach cleanup was in Costa Rica. Our group walked 30 minutes to a small beach called “Playa Basura”, meaning “trash beach” in Spanish.(...
Plastics are so ubiquitous in our lives that there are countless other sources of plastic pollution. In the eastern United States, the Hudson River carries 300 million clothing fibers into the Atlantic Ocean every day, according to a 2017 study. About half of the fibers are plastic, many enter...
Plastics are so ubiquitous in our lives that there are countless other sources of plastic pollution. In the eastern United States, the Hudson River carries 300 million clothing fibers into the Atlantic Ocean every day, according to a 2017 study. About half of the fibers are plastic, many enter...
Trash islands of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans are made up of tons of trash and occupy an area as large as many states!
World’s major rivers are becoming conveyor belts. They pick up more and more trash as they go downstream and take plastic to seas and oceans. Once this plastic is caught in ocean streams, it’s transported around the world. Here’s an example: Henderson Island is an uninhibited atoll betw...