I was truly horrified watching people doing “business as usual” on the beach while they were surrounded by trash. The pictures in The Times said it all. I hope others saw the same horror as I did in those pictures. Wake up, America, the future has arrived! SHARON STIENSTRA Inglewood...
When plastic pollution was initially found in the Great Lakes, many observers feared that it could accumulate inlarge floating garbage patches, like those created by ocean currents. However, when we used our computational models to predict how plastic pollution would move around in the surface water...
It is an indication of the issue’s global importance — today, there is an estimated 150 million tons ofplastic circulating in the world’s oceans, with more being dumped every minute, according to US-based Ocean Conservancy. Still in the Ocean Since February, the team have deployed satellit...
But I see it in the small things, too. Take, for example, litter. I see litter and trash as a sort of bellwether for bigger problems. Our airports, to pick one spot (and to keep this conversation at least nominally within the sphere of air travel), are getting dirtier and dirtier. ...
If you're still waiting on the city to pick up your bulk trash in area #1 which is N.W. Lawton they're still out collecting and will get to you as soon as possible. The City of Lawton announced that they would be extending the bulk trash pick up through today (06-04-21) due to...
Like the Dutch system, her backyard pilot-scale system would send a curtain of bubbles up from the river bottom to corral trash and move it to the side of the creek. But this 15-year-old at W. P. Davidson High School ...
Bird carcasses full of plastic bottle caps, marine life entangled in six-pack rings, or one of the many plastic garbage islands in the ocean usually come to mind well before a flimsy plastic tube. It’s a lot more than an item or two, however- single use plastics, which include straws...
Along with organizing volunteer cleanups, Hickman has also traveled worldwide, speaking to kids about caring for the planet and oceans. At the Ocean Institute in California, he started a program where primary school students clean local beaches and then board the institute’s teaching ship to lear...
s oceans—a problem whose magnitude society is just beginning to grasp. Indeed, the last month or so has seen coverage ofocean garbage obscuring the searchfor the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370; scientific claims that the ocean floor isturning into a massive landfill; and ev...
Have you ever done this or had someone do it to you? You pass by a neighbor's trash can and toss a coffee cup or banana peel into it? Or maybe a neighbor's bin is full so they put a trash bag into YOUR bin? In the state of New Jersey, are these illegal acts?Well...