OPDERA Blog
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You Need to Watch This Now
CNBC’s Katie Brigham and her team kill it in this 15 min. video about plastics. The plastic waste that is flooding the Earth is unprecedented. You must take 15 min. to watch this today! The video clearly and articulately describes the problem we face, how it developed, what is happening now, and how we can…
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Premier: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Documentary
Join us for the Screening of: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Documentary. Friday, November 8 · 5:30 – 8pm PST Sports Basement Presidio 610 Old Mason Street San Francisco, CA 94129
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My First Voyage To The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
I founded the nonprofit OPDERA – Ocean Plastic Debris Education Research and Awareness because most people are not aware of the environmental catastrophe happening right before their eyes. I WAS SHOCKED when I first read about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch 15 years ago. My further research into the subject proved inconclusive. Much that was…
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Another marine fatality caused by plastic waste.
BBC: “Scientists have revealed a list of items found in a stomach of a sperm whale which died after stranding on the Isle of Harris. The list included stacks of cups, packing straps, squid beaks embedded in the ball of litter, three bundles of fishing rope, fragments of rubber gloves, and rubber tubing.” Learn more…
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COVID-19 PPE has increased plastic pollution.
8 million metric tons of plastic waste enter the oceans every year. The total weight of this plastic waste is the equivalent of 90 aircraft carriers.
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Plastic is the deadliest marine life killer.
The Guardian: “Plastic bags and flexible packaging are the deadliest plastic items in the ocean, killing wildlife including whales, dolphins, turtles, and seabirds around the globe. Whales, dolphins and turtles were especially at risk from eating plastic film, with seabird deaths linked more with ingestion of hard plastic pieces and balloons.” Learn more at:www.opdera.org Source:https://www.theguardian.com/…/deadliest-plastics-bags……
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How Big Plastic Companies Make You Feel Guilty
An example of corporate propaganda convincing consumers that the brand is not to blame but the consumers are.
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Plastic In The Air
This interactive tool allows you to see what the plastic particles are in the air you breathe, what they are made of – chemicals and toxins, and where they came from.
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Plastic is falling from the sky. Where it’s coming from will surprise you.
At any given time, 1,100 tons of microplastic are floating over the western US. New modeling shows the surprising sources of the nefarious pollutant.
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Drink lattes? Order takeout? You’re breathing in invisible toxins
A new interactive visualization shows we’re breathing in plastic all the time.
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Expedition hauls tons of plastic out of remote Hawaii atolls
The Star-Advertiser in Honolulu released this story of massive plastic waste cleanup. Literally tons of Ghost Nets and plastic waste were collected.
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Suez Canal: EverGreen, the company is a repeat offender.
Business Insider: “A ship operated by Evergreen Marine Corp., the company behind the vessel blocking the Suez Canal, once released 28,800 plastic toys into the Pacific Ocean by accident in the 1990s – and they were still washing up on shores around the world 15 years later.” Learn more at:www.opdera.org Source:https://www.businessinsider.in/…/articleshow/81708512.cms #zerowaste #plasticfree #plasticpollution #recycle…
