Posts tagged "Ocean Cleanup"

Environment

Testing Out Ocean Cleanup

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Testing Out Ocean Cleanup
Ocean Cleanup device in Great Pacific Garbage Patch breaks, will be towed back to port
Ocean Cleanup device in Great Pacific Garbage Patch breaks, will be towed back to port
A 60-foot chunk of the Ocean Cleanup device in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has broken off.
The system was towed out to sea from its building berth on San Francisco Bay on Sept. 8, 2018, and was first deployed about 240 nautical miles offshore where it was tested for two weeks. It was then towed to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch nearly 1,400 miles off the West Coast, about halfway between California and Hawaii. 

 

Environment Science

Biodegradable Six-Pack Rings

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A brewery is making the ocean safer with this new edible packaging
A brewery is making the ocean safer with this new edible packaging
A Florida brewery is helping lessen marine pollution by creating six-pack rings out of barley and wheat so that sea life can eat them.
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A brewery invented 'edible six-pack rings' to save ocean animals
A brewery invented ‘edible six-pack rings’ to save ocean animals
Saltwater Brewery in Florida has invented six-pack rings that ocean animals can actually eat.
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Environment Health Science Technology

Ocean Cleanup Foundation Deploys Prototype

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Boyan Slat's Ocean Cleanup Project Launches Historic First Prototype at Sea
Boyan Slat’s Ocean Cleanup Project Launches Historic First Prototype at Sea
Boyan Slat’s ambitious plan to rid the world’s oceans of plastic has taken another step towards reality with its first prototype to be tested at sea. The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, founded by the 21-year-old Slat, has deployed a 100-meter clean-up boom today in the North Sea in The Netherlands.The p…
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