Though the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the most widely publicized of the so-called trash islands, theAtlantic Oceanhas one as well in the Sargasso Sea. The Sargasso Sea is located in the North Atlantic Ocean between 70 and 40 degrees westlongitudeand 25 and 35 degrees northlatitude. It i...
Addressing the climate crisis requires reducing pollution in the oceans, which accumulate an additional14 million tons of plastic yearly. Here's what you need to know about the islands of trash in the Pacific Ocean, and how you can help with the cleanup. ...
Co-Founder Sam Judd came up with the idea of forming a non-profit organization while surfing in the Galápagos Islands in 2008. A year later, the two created Sustainable Coastlines in New Zealand to educate, motivate, and empower individuals and communities to clean...
FUZHOU, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Yushan Island in China's Fujian is reputed to be one of the most beautiful islands in the region. In the past, the island's shores were rife with ocean trash. Chen Qiyun, a young backpacker, used to collect the trash and turn them into fine handicrafts. ...
Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, has one of the longest coastlines in the world and is the second-biggest contributor to ocean plastics, according to a study in the journal Science. "Growing up on the island of Bali, plastic is something you can no longer look (...
Trash is not just a problem in the local places and on the side of the road; however, trash also gets thrown from islands into rivers or lakes that flow into oceans. Actually, most ocean trash comes from rivers or lakes. My biggest concern about ocean trash is that 80 percent of ocean...
Garbage patches are large areas of the ocean where trash, fishing gear, and other marine debris collects. The term “garbage patch” is a misleading nickname, making many believe that garbage patches are "islands of trash" that are visible from afar. These areas are actually made up of debri...
~ here and there. in betweend islands, and continue….Search: Tag Archives: trash 又說垃圾 10 Tuesday Nov 2009 Posted by aSun in FBI, From Big Island, 小島事 ≈ 2 Comments Tags Big Island, garbage, Hawaii, life, trash 陸陸續續住過幾的地方,都一直是生活在所謂的城市裡頭,非關...
This post is not to make people sad, guilty, or lose hope, It is to bring awareness to the ongoing trash problem in our oceans and on our shorelines. Hopefully, these images will inspire people to change. My Mission:To Protect and Preserve the Wildlife of the Ryukyu Islands for Future ...
It’s becoming more common to find crabs with beach trash homes. I have friends combing local beaches in search of more crabs for my series. While these are cute images, our trash is becoming a serious problem to the ocean and the animals that call the shoreline home. I often find hermi...