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What the Foam?!

Ocean Conservancy

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Plastic foam foodware items are consistently among the most collected items from beaches and waterways during Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup ® (ICC), with volunteers collecting more than 8.7

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A Plastic Economy: Is Recycling Broken?

HumanNature

Guest Post by Mariel Price 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Every minute, one garbage truck worth of plastic is dumped into our ocean. Between plastics and the health of our oceans? Why is that a problem? Well, plastics were built to last.

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Kathleen Hebert: Protecting the Puget Sound through Activism and Investment

Washington Nature

It laid the groundwork for the subsequent Climate Commitment Act (CCA), which the legislature successfully passed in 2021. One of E8’sinvestments, Tidal Vision , derives a biopolymer called chitosan from upcycled food waste such as crab shells, saving them from smothering the ocean floor or emitting greenhouse gasses in landfills.