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- Mary Crowley Visits The Harbour School Hong Kong
- Assembly Bill Would Cut Plastic Trash To Ocean
- Unfinished Business: The Case for Extended Producer Responsibility for Post-Consumer Packaging
- Seabirds Study Shows Plastic Pollution Reaching Surprising Levels
- Tsunami Debris Workshop at the University of Hawaii
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Mary Crowley Visits The Harbour School Hong Kong
Raising global awareness and understanding of the marine debris/ocean trash problem is a significant component of the mission of Project Kaisei. The impact on our ocean environment and how we can introduce solutions for both prevention and clean-up is a … Continue reading
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Assembly Bill Would Cut Plastic Trash To Ocean
Assembly bill AB 521 introduced this past February aims to clean up marine debris and shift the cost of controlling pollution to the responsibility of the manufacturers who produce it. Introduced by assemblymen Ben Hueso (D-San Diego) and Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay), … Continue reading
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Tagged EPR, north pacific gyre, ocean debris, plastic, post-consumer packaging, producer responsibility, waste
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Unfinished Business: The Case for Extended Producer Responsibility for Post-Consumer Packaging
Americans generate more waste than any other country in the world but recycle far less than other developed nations. Post-consumer packaging materials comprise the largest category of solid waste, and U.S. taxpayers pay for its management. In Unfinished Business: The Case … Continue reading
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Seabirds Study Shows Plastic Pollution Reaching Surprising Levels
Plastic pollution off the northwest coast of North America is reaching the level of the notoriously polluted North Sea, according to a new study led by a researcher at the University of British Columbia. The study, published online in the … Continue reading
Tsunami Debris Workshop at the University of Hawaii
The March 11, 2011, tsunami in Japan generated a large amount of debris. The debris quickly drifted offshore, dispersed and became invisible to existing observing systems. Recently, predictions of ocean models have been confirmed by direct observations, with the edge of the … Continue reading
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Cook, Melville and Gauguin Exhibit at Maritime Museum of San Diego
Mary Crowley visited the Cook, Melville, and Gauguin exhibit at the Maritime Museum of San Diego. Mary is on the advisory board for the museum as regards their construction of the ship San Salvador. She had the opportunity to tour the … Continue reading
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Dan Rather Reports “Sea of Garbage”
Our cameras head out thousands of miles from the nearest land to a sea of garbage in the Pacific Ocean called the Eastern Garbage Patch. Trash has been quietly accumulating here for decades and most of it takes the form … Continue reading
This Lady Talks Trash – Mary Crowley in More Magazine
The Pacific Ocean is choking on plastic— bottles, buoys, toys, even lawn chairs. Some experts say cleanup is not only impossible but strategically misguided. Into this controversy sails Mary Crowley, a former sea captain with miracles on her mind. – … Continue reading
Nearly 1 in 10 fish sampled contain plastic debris
Local researchers said Thursday that fish in the middle depths of the North Pacific Ocean probably consume tens of thousands of tons of plastic debris each year. link Acording to recent research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the … Continue reading
Project Kaisei Plastic Challenge
For the 2011 Social media week, Project Kaisei called upon students in Hong Kong to join in the Plastic Challenge: help to protect the environment and Hong Kong’s rich marine life by collecting plastic from homes, schools and offices, to … Continue reading
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