Can we solve the problem of ocean plastic pollution and end extreme poverty at the same time? That's the ambitious goal of The Plastic Bank: a worldwide chain of stores where everything from school tuition to cooking fuel and more is available for purchase in exch...
Section II considers the concerns surrounding ocean plastics, focusing on impacts of plastic on marine ecosystems as well as human health effects. Section III, IV, and V discuss the ongoing attempts to address the ocean plastics problem. Sections III and IV provide a brief overview of ...
The seaweed-based product replacements are an alternative to outsourcing plastics from China—a needed step toward reducing plastic in landfills and oceans. “The realization that food technology is not well-suited for mass production at a competitive price point is what gave rise to the new g...
Once dumped into the ocean, it immediately begins to damage the environment and enter the food chain. More than 200 species of marine life have been documented ingesting plastic. “It is really sad to see how much plastic we have put in the oceans,” says Dr. Nanne ...
今天是第47个世界环境日(World Environment Day),联合国环境规划署公布了今年的主题——Beat Plastic Solution,塑战速决。 150多年前,塑料一经发明就获得人们的青睐,它便宜、重量轻、耐用、易于制造,给我们带来的好处是不可否认的,但如今我们对于塑料的过度依赖,已经造成了严重的后果。
which is the equivalent of pouring one garbage truck of plastic into the ocean every minute. This number is expected to increase to two garbage trucks per minute by 2030, and four per minute by 2050. By 2050, this could mean there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans....
of sachets every day.At the same time, the Philippines ismismanaging plastic waste. A staggering 2.7 million tons of plastic waste are generated in the Philippines each year, and an estimated 20 percent ends up in the ocean. Comprised of more than 7,500 islands, the livelihoods of the Phil...
B. Ignoring plastic pollution. C. Launching clean-up campaigns. D. Promoting overfishing. 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 C。解析:文中提到“To combat this issue, the organization has come up with innovative solutions. For example, they have launched clean-up campaigns on beaches and in the ...
Tiny plastic fragments found in samples of sea water tested at the University of Plymouth. Credit: University of Plymouth Tapping into the public's passion for the ocean environment could be the key to reducing the threats posed to it by plastic pollution, a new report suggests. ...
To address geotechnical engineering issues such as pile driving, lateral pressure tests, and static cone penetration tests on increasing number of infrastructure projects being constructed on landfills, an elasto-plastic theoretical solution for the undr