If any of you don’t know about the Surfrider Foundation yet, check out the link. They’re a group dedicated solely to protecting our beaches and oceans and they have awesome newsletters. They literally cover every topic, from fishing bans to the various types of pollution we’re dumping into the water. I got this gem from…
Hey all, Burning the midnight oil to get draft numero uno done in time for my 10am meeting! I’m getting there, bit by bit… Expect some new posts! I’ll be posting my writing in pieces so as not to overwhelm WordPress and anybody attempting to read about plastics and recycling (because it gets a little…
I accomplished something tonight! It’s not quite finished and the table that I mention at the end is still in production, but basically I’ve written a brief history of plastics and started in on the thesis –> recycling. Comments, critiques and questions welcome! Please remember that this is a first draft and is extremely rough….
It’s been quiet on 7 in the Ocean for almost a week now, my apologies! The first draft of my entire capstone is due next week, so tonight through Sunday I’ll be (hopefully) cranking out some writing! Getting started is always the hardest part… In the meantime, check out David De Rothschild and his soon-to-be…
Another solution to pollution: turn our non-biodegradable non-recyclable refuse into something beautiful. Sure, it’s not being broken down and put into something new, but it’s not ending up in landfills and could serve a functional purpose. Check out a few artists I’ve discovered! Chris Jordan Andy Hughes Robert Bradford Heath Nash
Something I have found while researching the recycling business is that we, the consumers, often have no idea where our recycling goes after it leaves the curb, sorted as we have been told, in corresponding bins. This is something I would like to look into because I, to be honest, have not figured out whether…
Chris Jordan, an amazing photographer of visual statistics, ventured to Midway Atoll and created a six-minute video depicting baby albatross that have died from ingesting plastic debris. Our waste is ending up on these very remote places and having an unfortunate, lasting impact. Sadly, not many people see this problem and like a lot of…
**Image obtained from Google Images** UMaine is advocating for this method and I’m doing a little research for my paper. I found this review completed by the Container Recycling Institute and just by reading the introduction, it seems there’s a lot of things that need working out before this method will be useful. While proponents…
I’m attaching a link to a Google Document I created with my updated “Plastic Waste on Beaches II” data and writing. The figures might not come in but if you’re curious, let me know! Beach Survey Data Writing
In case you were wondering (because I was), SPI stands for the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. These guys came up with the resin identification code (in 1988, a great year)! I have been wondering about this ever since I got interested in plastics and finally found an answer. You might have seen these…
Sundays are never fun-days. But since my capstone is awesome, it turned out to be a not-so-bad day after all. I’m posting the titles of the articles I read today, with a little description of each, followed by a quick conclusion. I’ll be adding this info to my Plastic Debris on Beaches section tomorrow. Papers:…
After looking through the papers I’ve read and the notes I’ve written, I realized I have a ton of info about beach debris. Let’s see if I can bang out a couple paragraphs about this issue… Sources used: Debris in the Mediterranean Sea: Types, Quantities, and Behavior by Abraham Golik Distribution, Type, Accumulation, and Source…