by seacleanse | Aug 31, 2021 | In the News, Latest News
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the world’s largest collection of floating trash—and the most famous. It lies between Hawaii and California and is often described as “larger than Texas,” even though it contains not a square foot of surface on which to stand. It...
by seacleanse | Aug 31, 2021 | In the News, Latest News
Single-use plastics plague our modern daily lives. They are cheap to produce, convenient, and sanitary — it’s no wonder why we produce a little over 300 million tons of plastic globally every year. However, since most plastics take almost 1000 years to decompose,...
by seacleanse | Aug 31, 2021 | In the News, Latest News
The tiny pieces of plastic scientists call microplastics are everywhere. They sit at the bottom of the sea, mix into beach sand, and blow in the wind. They’re also inside us. Last October, microplastics were found in fecal samples from eight people participating in a...
by seacleanse | Aug 31, 2021 | In the News, Latest News
The 2019 report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) paints a pretty sobering picture of the state of the global climate. Record temperatures, thinning ice sheets, extreme weather events, and raging bush fires were just some of the findings in the...
