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 (...
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...
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...
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Once their lands and islands were underwater and salinized, a large portion of the 250 million climate refugees got involved with interdependent NGOs like the one my grandparents created. Together, they invented new underwater urbanization processes that were energy self-sufficient, recycled all ...
Organisers said an audit revealed most of the garbage that washed up on Bali's beaches came from other islands© SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP "I knew the problem existed, but I didn't know it was this bad," she said. "I use plastic products a lot in my life, and now I try t...
in the water column, eaten by marine animals, or washed up ashorein remote islands. Tiny pieces of plastic, called microplastics,can also be found in sedimentsandeven frozen inside Arctic ice. “By focusing on the middle of the ocean, you’re missing the boat,” says Marcus Eriksen, the ...
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...