Plastic surgeons articles
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Letter: System needed to keep plastic trash from ocean
Recently, I read of a nonprofit from the Netherlands called Ocean Cleanup. It has developed and demonstrated functionality of “Jenny 002,” a system that uses netting from a ship to remove the Great Pacific Garbage Patch region by region, and the “Interceptor” to clean plastics from rivers.
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Mombasa’s Struggle Against Plastic Pollution is a Global Crisis
The global plastic pollution crisis is escalating at an alarming rate, with 400 million tonnes of plastic produced annually.
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GREEN: Trudeau government should end war on plastics for sake of the environment
Here’s the shocker: Meng shows that for 15 out of the 16 uses, plastic products incur fewer GHG emissions than their alternatives. Read that again. When considering 90% of global plastic use, alternatives to plastic lead to greater GHG emissions than the plastic products they displace.