On the 23rd of June last month, the Ocean Voyages Institute made history after they successfully cleaned 103 tons or 206,000 pounds of plastic garbage and fishing nets from the GYRE or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The cleaning expedition lasted for 48 days and they set a new record […]
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The 25-Year-Old’s Dream to Clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Uses a Giant Device for Cleaning Plastic
When he was 19, Boyan Slat, today a successful and well-known entrepreneur, founded Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization whose goal is to eliminate harmful plastics from the oceans. His organization created a device twice the size of Texas to remove garbage from the Garbage Patch in the Great Pacific. The […]
Ocean Cleaning Device Successfully Removes Plastic For The First Time
A large cleaning device which was constructed by Dutch scientists for the non-profit organization Ocean Cleanup successfully collected and removed plastic from the Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean. The organization has long been working on making a device that will help tackle the plastic garbage crisis and the result […]
Irish Teenager Wins Google Science Award for Removing Microplastics From Oceans
Beautiful news: an 18-year-old boy from Ireland received the 2019 Google Science Fair award for his development of a method that helps remove microplastics from water. His project was based on a useful methodology for the removal of plastics from the oceans that’s based on magnets. During his research, he […]
Wake Up Images of How We’re Destroying Our Environment
Without doubt, as humans, we have a major impact on our planet and our environment. But, even in the midst of mounting data of how we’re harming our earth, most people remain indifferent to the changes happening around them and don’t do anything to minimize their negative influence. With this […]
The Biggest Ocean Cleanup In The World Has Officially Begun
Unfortunately, every year, more than 12 million tonnes of plastics goes into our oceans and damages sea life and the entire ecosystem. Estimates shown that in the Pacific Ocean alone, there are around 80,000 tonnes of plastic which is mostly concentrated in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch- a big “island” […]
Philippine Coffee Shop Uses Straws from Coconut Leaves To Reduce Plastic Waste
Unfortunately, we are harming and destroying our beloved earth with the industrial, commercial, and domestic waste which is being released on a daily basis. How the earth is still holding up is a wonder. Believe it or not, statistics from 2016 shows that 7 billion people produced 320 million tons […]