October 2015 - Page 2 of 2 - Plastic Waste Solutions
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Ocean Pollution: 8 Trillion Microbeads a Day from US
Posted on October 6, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsOcean Pollution: 8 Trillion Microbeads a Day from US : News : Nature World News. A new analysis of waters around the United States has found that the country is dumping a stunning 8 trillion bits of plastic into oceans...
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Report puts cost of ocean plastic cleanup at $5 billion
Posted on October 5, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations, Plastic Waste NewsReport puts cost of ocean plastic cleanup at $5 billion | Plastics News#utm_medium=email&utm_source=pn-sustain&utm_campaign=pn-sustain-20151001&email_sustain. That there are literally tons of plastic in the world’s oceans is hardly new information, especially to the plastics industry. But now there is finally an in-depth...
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Plastic in 99 percent of seabirds by 2050 – Australia
Posted on October 1, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifePlastic in 99 percent of seabirds by 2050 -- ScienceDaily. The study, led by Dr Chris Wilcox with co-authors Dr Denise Hardesty and Dr Erik van Sebille and published today in the journal PNAS, found that nearly 60 per...
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