Category: Ocean (Bound) Plastic
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US Announces Partnership to Reduce Ocean Plastic Pollution in Indonesia
Today, the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Clean Cities, Blue Ocean program, joined Circulate Capital,…
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Plastic Waste in the Palau Coral Reef
Plastics are a new threat to Palau’s coral reefs
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Mattel Launches Ocean Plastic Barbie
The Future of Pink is Green: Barbie Introduces New Dr. Jane Goodall and Eco-Leadership Team Certified CarbonNeutral® Dolls Made from…
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Newport Beach Water Wheel Against Ocean Trash
Newport Beach rolling out innovative ‘water wheel’ to scoop up ocean trash
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UN Declares Ocean Emergency
UN Secretary-General declares an “Ocean Emergency”
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Sailing Ship Turns Ocean Waste into Energy
Sailing ship turns ocean plastic pollution into energy
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Plastic Robots and Drones to Clean Ocean Plastics
Robot fish could solve the ocean’s microplastic pollution problem while drones are swallowing tonnes of plastic waste before it reaches…
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Logitech Joins Nextwave Plastics (FREE)
NextWave Plastics Expands Cross-Industry Consortium; Welcomes Logitech, Prevented Ocean Plastic, #tide ocean material. This is a FREE article
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Sabic and UPM Partner on Ocean Plastic
Sabic Collaborates With Upm Raflatac To Launch The World’s First Label Material Made From Certified Circular Ocean Bound Plastic
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Plastitar
Plastic pollution now combining with tar to form ocean-threatening ‘plastitar’ — When will the great masters of this world finally…
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Adidas Greenwashing with Floatable Ocean Plastic Tennis Court
Adidas Creates Floating Tennis Court Made of Ocean Plastic to Raise Awareness — There has been a greenwashing avalanche since…
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Handelsbanken Goes Ocean Plastic Cards
Handelsbanken goes for payment cards made of recycled ocean plastic
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Coles Supermarket Goes Ocean Plastic Bags
Coles using plastic marine waste to make shopping bags
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Ship Converts Ocean Plastic in Hydrogen Fuel
Proposed Ship Would Create Hydrogen Fuel by Collecting Ocean Plastics
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Ocean Plastic Design Coffee Table
Transforming ocean plastic waste into desirable art
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Adidas and Parley Accused of Ocean Plastic Greenwashing
Documentary on the ocean plastics used by Adidas and Parley for ocean
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Sabic Launches Ocean Plastic Resin
Sabic Launches New Upcycled Lnp™ Elcrin™ Iq Resin Made With Ocean-Bound Plastic Waste To Help Reduce Pollution And Support Circularity
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Monitoring Impact of Airborne Plastic Pollution on Oceans
Call for global strategy to monitor effect of airborne plastic pollution on oceans
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All You Need to Know About Plastic Nurdles
A nurdle is a bead of pure plastic and the building block of almost all plastic products. They’re also called…
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Jason Momoa and rePurpose Global Partner on Ocean Plastic Bottles
Jason Momoa’s Mananalu Goes Plastic Negative and Fights Ocean Plastic with rePurpose Global
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Transforming Ocean Plastic in to Art Sculptures
USA Today video on converting ocean plastic into art sculptures.
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ABB Robotics Goes Ocean Plastics 3D Printing
ABB Robotics showcases future of retail using recovered marine plastic at London’s Selfridges
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Dell Goes Ocean and Bioplastic Laptop
New Latitude 5000 Series Are Dell’s Most Sustainable Laptops Yet
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Sabic and Polivouga Partner on Ocean Plastic Packaging
Sabic, Polivouga And Nueva Pescanova Collaborate In Seafood Packaging Solution Using Certified Circular Pe From Ocean Bound Plastic
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Dior Goes Ocean and BioPlastic
Dior will use ocean and bioplastics
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Maurice Lacroix Goes Ocean Plastic Watches
Maurice Lacroix unveils the brightest, funkiest range of watches, offered in an array of eye-popping colours.
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Visible Ocean Plastics Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Simulations find the majority of ocean plastics may be on the seafloor or otherwise difficult to monitor, with vastly more…
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The Seacleaners Mobula 8
The Mobula 8 Devours Plastic Pollution and Oil Spills
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In an Octopus’s Garden
Octopus seem to have a preference for glass containers on the seabed
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First Study to Find Micro Biopolymers and Micro Bioplastics in Fish
First Study to Find Micro Biopolymers and Micro Bioplastics in Fish
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Are Ocean Cleanups a Bad Idea?
Some scientists believe that ocean clean ups are a bad idea
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Marine Plastic Waste Could Introduce Invasive Species
A new study led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) and the University of Barcelona (UB) shows how…
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Will a Plastic Treaty End Pollution and Marine Litter? (FREE)
Despite a lot of optimism, the Global Plastics Treaty that will begin to be negotiated in Nairobi at the end…
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Ocean Plastic Sex Toys
World’s first sex toys made with ocean-bound plastic
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Ocean Cleanup Accused of Staging Plastic Removal
Environmental organization The Ocean Cleanup has denied accusations that it staged a massive plastic removal operation after social media users…
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European Development Banks to Invest Billions in Clean Oceans Initiative
European banks to invest billions in protecting oceans from plastic
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Paint is Important Source of Ocean Microplastics
This report provides a global assessment of the level of plastic paint leakage worldwide
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Women Urinal Made from Ocean Plastics
The UK’s first women’s urinal
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Turning Ocean Plastic into Furniture
Project turns marine litter into furniture for the Marina of Valencia
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Samsung Galaxy S22 Goes Ocean Plastic (FREE)
Samsung’s new Galaxy S22 phones built partly with recycled ocean plastic.
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Scientists Discover Missing Ocean Microplastic
Scientists Uncover ‘Missing’ Plastics Deep In The Ocean
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Shinola and Veritiv Join NextWave Plastics
Shinola, Veritiv Among Latest Companies to Scale Use of Ocean-Bound Plastics through NextWave Plastics
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EIA Report on Ocean Plastic
The toxic pollution resulting from rampant overproduction of virgin plastics and their lifecycles is irreversible, directly undermines our health, drives…
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Samsung and Patagonia Partner on Microplastic Reduction
Samsung Collaborates with Patagonia to Keep Microplastics Out of Our Oceans
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Ocean Plastic Guitar
YouTuber luthier Burls Art creates a guitar out of recycled ocean plastic
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Sonic Filters for Microplastics
Bulk Acoustic Wave Filter for Microplastic
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First Home Energy Solution from Ocean Plastic
Schneider Electric Reveals First Home Energy Solutions Made from Recycled Ocean Plastics at CES 2022 to Make Homes More Sustainable
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Australia Waste, Recycling and Jobs Fund
Queensland recycling investment will help ocean plastic pollution crisis
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Ford Goes Ocean Plastic
The Ford Bronco Sport contains trace amounts of recycled ocean plastic
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Neopelagic Community and the Emergence of Plastic Ecosystems
Discoveries of persistent coastal species in the open ocean shift our understanding of biogeographic barriers.
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Worlds Largest Plastic Spill
UN Report on world’s largest plastic spill on record
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Glad Goes Ocean Plastic Bag
Glad partners with Oceanworks to launch Australia’s first ocean plastic bin liner
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SABIC Advanced Recycled Ocean Plastic
Sabic Creates The First Certified Circular Polymers From Advanced Recycling Of Recovered Ocean-Bound Plastic
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Ocean Plastic Harvester Completes Prototype Testing
Ocean “Plastic Harvester” Completes Prototype Testing
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How to Repurpose Ocean Plastic Fishing Nets?
Upcycled fishing nets help this Husky co-founder tackle plastic pollution.
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The Benefits of Ocean Plastic Pollution
What if ocean plastic waste was actually a good thing? There’s science, a movement and a petition.
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Converting Ocean Plastic into Blue Fuel
Thermodynamic feasibility of shipboard conversion of marine plastics to blue diesel for self-powered ocean cleanup
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Strangest Objects Found in Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Strangest Objects Recovered in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Ocean Cleanup Proof of Technology
On October 20, 2021, we gathered members of the press in Victoria Harbour to announce that after the successful completion…
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Plastic Pollution to Double by 2030 Says UN
Plastic pollution on course to double by 2030
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Marine Microplastics from Paint Particles
Paint particles in the marine environment: An overlooked component of microplastics
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Caribbean Haute Couture Goes Ocean Plastic
Aiming to design 80% of our collections with sustainable ocean waste plastic materials by 2022.
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Microsoft Ocean Plastic Mouse
Recycling ocean plastic to help clean up our oceans
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Herman Miller Goes Ocean Plastics
Herman Miller Increases Use of Ocean-bound Plastic with Aeron Chair
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Simple Method to Remove Microplastics from Water
A simple trick but it removes 87 % of microplastics from the waters. The EU student received money from the…
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Impact Reusable on Ocean Plastic Pollution
Reusing 10% will stop almost half of plastic waste from entering the ocean. Here’s how
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Policy Options to Eliminate Additional Marine Plastic Litter Report
The think piece provides policy options to reduce marine plastic litter and achieve the Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, which voluntarily…
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Cariuma Ocean Friendly Bioplastics Shoes
These made-to-order shoes clean the ocean
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NASA Satellites to Track Ocean Microplastics
Scientists from the University of Michigan have developed an innovative way to use NASA satellite data to track the movement…
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PADI and The Ocean Cleanup Partner on Ocean Plastic
PADI and The Ocean Cleanup Join Forces to Tackle Oceans Plastic
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Parley for the Ocean and Brita Partner on Ending SUP Water Bottles
Parley For The Oceans Joins Forces With Brita® To Launch The “Future Of Water” Design Exploration With The Shared Mission…
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Duvaltex Launched Ocean Plastic Textile
Last year, Duvaltex Launched Its New Ocean Waste Clean Impact Textilest Technology In Partnership With Steelcase
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Cannes Lions Goes Ocean Plastics Trophies
Cannes Lions partners with Parley for the Oceans to make the Sustainable Development Goals Lion trophies out of Parley Ocean…
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Waitrose Goes Ocean Plastic
From coast to kitchen – plastic destined for the ocean to be used in Waitrose packaging
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Avient and Oceanworks Partner on Ocean Plastics
Avient Collaborates with Oceanworks® to Expand Use of Recycled Ocean Plastics
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Barbie Goes Ocean Plastics
Mattel Launches Barbie Loves the Ocean; Its First Fashion Doll Collection Made from Recycled Ocean-Bound* Plastic
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Aldi Goes Ocean Plastics
Aldi To Introduce Packaging Made From Recycled Plastic Bound For The Ocean
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First Investigation for Ocean Plastic Pollution?
Is this the first criminal investigation for plastic pellet pollution?
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US Soccer Goes Parley Ocean Shirts
MLS releases PRIMEBLUE jerseys, teams with Twitter for unique jersey swap honoring fans
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Turning Ocean Plastic into Beach Chairs
Company Turns Ocean Plastic Into Beach Chairs
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EPA Funds Ocean Plastic Recycling into Lumber
Anchorage engineer plans to recycle ocean garbage into plastic lumber
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Hyosung Recycles Ocean Plastic into Fiber
Hyosung TNC is launching a project to save the sea with regen®, the leading eco-friendly fiber in the country
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HelloFresh Ocean Plastic CSR
HelloFresh stops 37,5 million plastic bottles from entering the ocean
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The Role of Rivers in Ocean Plastics
More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean. A better understanding of pathways…
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Sainsbury Goes Ocean Plastic Packaging
Sainsbury’s to pluck 12 million plastic bottles from shorelines to reel in ocean pollution
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Aquatic Pollutants in Oceans and Fisheries
Chemicals and plastics, not just overfishing, threaten aquatic food chain with ‘disaster’, report warns
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Why Most Ocean Plastic Pollution is Missing?
The plastic we dump into the ocean might be hiding in plain sight.
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Hum Nutrition Goes 100 % Ocean Plastic
HUM Nutrition Announces Large-scale Sustainability Initiative: First Supplement Brand To Transition To 100% Ocean Bound Plastic
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UN Project to Tackle Marine Litter
New project to help 30 developing countries tackle marine litter scourge
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Ocean Conservancy Report on PPE Pollution
Volunteers removed 107,219 items of personal protective equipment (PPE) from beaches and waterways worldwide in second half of 2020
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Sabic Recycled Ocean Bound Portfolio
Sabic Is A Frontrunner In Industry To Launch Recycled Ocean Bound Plastics Portfolio
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Indian Fishermen Clean the Oceans
The waste caught by fishing boats used to be thrown back into the sea but in Kerala it is now…
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Coldplay Sponsors Ocean Cleanup
Coldplay Adopts Interceptor To Join The Ocean Cleanup Mission
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Maine to Focus on Ocean Plastic Pollution (FREE)
In her first meeting as chair of the environment subcommittee of Appropriations, Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine’s 1st…
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Ocean Plastic Face Masks
US entrepreneur has found a way to turn trash into treasure, recycling plastic waste in the ocean into wearable masks…
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The Economist and Nippon Foundation Partner on Ocean Pollution
The Economist Group and The Nippon Foundation Launch New Initiative to Promote Ocean Health
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How Plastic Moves in the Oceans
Model predicts probability of plastic debris being transported from one ocean surface region to another
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WEF Plan to Save Our Seas
A 10-step plan to save our seas
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Shady Plastic Credit and Offset Schemes Report
As more companies and governments make commitments to address plastic pollution, several plastic offset claims and credit schemes have emerged
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