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Plastic Ocean Project announces screenings and fundraisers for first feature-length documentary

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Wilmington-based nonprofit Plastic Ocean Project has announced short documentary film screenings and fundraising for its first feature-length documentary. If the Oceans Could ...
WECT

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: Non-profit works to keep plastic out of the ocean

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - From restaurants to retail shops, you’ll find plastic — lots of it. From bottles to straws, Americans love plastic. “We use about 500 million plastic straws a day,” Lisa ...
New York Post

Don’t expect the greens’ 1,600% mistake on ocean plastic to get them to change course

That is, until it isn’t. The latest backtrack? Turns out there’s less plastic in the oceans than claimed. Far less. Per a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience, just 500,000 metric tons of ...
Forbes

How Blue Sharks Spread Plastic Pollution Across The Ocean

New research has shown that blue sharks’ intestines act like temporary holding tanks, trapping fibers long enough to build up significant amounts. Their epic migrations mean they can spread these ...
Phys.org

Plastic pollution could linger at ocean surfaces for over a century, new research finds

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...