Why the Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis
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Why the Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis
By Dr. David Shiffman In 2019 a nonprofit called The Ocean Cleanup conducted a major test of technology designed to remove plastic pollution from the water. It appeared to work, and the nonprofit released photos proclaiming its success. But some scientists noticed something else among the accumulated plastic in the Ocean Cleanup’s publicity photos. “Earlier this year I warned that @TheOceanCleanup would catch and kill floating marine life,” mari…
Launched at the end of May in Limassol, Cyprus, the 2026 edition of the #EUBeachCleanup campaign is expected to mobilise communities, associations and citizens around the cleaning of beaches, rivers and lakes until the autumn. The operation comes back every summer with the same evidence: what accumulates on sand is that the most visible part of much wider pollution. According to the European Commission, 80% of marine waste comes from the land an…
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