#plastic trash

[hope-for-the-planet]

Clearly cool: A transparent paper-based material could replace single-use plastics

The millimeter-thick paperboard behaves just like plastic; it's strong, transparent, shapeable—and can hold boiling water. But it degrades w

From the article:

Researchers in Japan have now made a new paper-based material that could be an ideal replacement for those single-use plastics. The millimeter-thick paperboard reported in the journal Science Advances behaves like plastic, but only when needed. It is strong, transparent and shapeable, and it can hold boiling water, but it degrades within a year after settling on the ocean floor.

[skyrim-forever]

Todd Edit Every Day Until TES VI: Day 187

Latoddtodd suggested by @plutoprophecy

[radiophd]

plastic trash -- princess of misery

[patriciastrike]

August abstract challenge - trash

[intelligentliving]

Ocean Cleanup Is Now Bringing Plastic Back To Shore And Plans To Recycle It

The Ocean Cleanup has successfully brought plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch back to shore for the first time and plans to recycle it.

[mistermarken]

found plastic trash

[npr]

Guess What's Showing Up In Our Shellfish? One Word: Plastics

Scientists predict that plastic in the ocean will eventually outweigh the fish there. Where is it all coming from? And is it making our food unsafe? Researchers are trying to find the answers.

"When you eat clams and oysters, you're eating plastics as well,” says shellfish biologist Sarah Dudas.

In 2016, she and her students at Vancouver Island University planted thousands of clams and oysters across coastal British Columbia and let them soak in the sand and saltwater of the Strait of Georgia. Three months later, they dissolved hundreds of them with chemicals, filtered out the biodegradable matter and looked at the remaining material under a microscope. Inside this Pacific Northwest culinary staple, they found a rainbow of little plastic particles.

[thatfishchick]

A giant penguin made out of trash stands before the Georgia Aquarium.

Why a penguin to talk about plastic trash in the ocean? Well, penguins have a penchant for finding trash. Many species of penguins are actually nestbuilders, and all sorts of strange items have been founds in nests!