August 2, 2021 – Malibu, California – Today, Plastic Oceans International and ÜÑÜ are pleased to officially announce the launch of the inaugural Trees & Seas Festival – a global celebration running now through August 8, uniting ocean and forest conservation with the goal of building a healthier and more just planet for all.
At the heart of the environmental debate is an often ignored but hyper-present quandary: can industry and economic development ever truly sit comfortably alongside environmental responsibility. On the vast, uninterrupted littoral of Chile, in its Aconcagua Coast, lies a resounding and affirmative answer to that question.
Marissa Quinn is already a woman of many hats — artist, professor, surfer, environmentalist. Speaking to her, in fact, you get the sense that, much like her uniquely detailed artwork, she has gone through life being meticulous about her choices, honing in on areas of greatest importance – whether professionally, emotionally, or pedagogically – and giving them her soul.
Manglares. La más singular de las ecologías, a caballo entre el agua y la tierra; una frontera literal entre sistemas, generando una propia a lo largo del camino: bosques semiacuáticos que consisten principalmente en vegetación sumergida, que generalmente existe en los límites de los mares y otros humedales.
Mangroves. That most unique of ecologies, straddling water and land; a literal border between systems, generating its own along the way – semi-aquatic forests that consist mostly of submerged vegetation, generally existing on the boundaries of seas and other wetlands.
July 23, 2021 – Malibu, CA – A recent study by Plastic Oceans International and Arizona State University, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, reveals that detergent pods are contributing to the plastic pollution problem, leaking large amounts of untreated PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) into the environment, and possibly into the human food chain.
The BlueCommunities initiative of Plastic Oceans International is taking its message of community engagement and sustainability to the desert of Arizona.
As of July 3, 2021, new legislation from the European Union promises to usher in a new era for waste reduction, recycling, and environmental economics, targeting one of the biggest culprits of marine and terrestrial pollution: plastic.
When a small school in India launched a competition in 2016, asking students to innovate solutions for problems they felt passionate about, little did they know that their winning entry was likely to generate a significant advance in the collection of plastic waste from the oceans.
In March of this year, when the cargo ship Ever Given became stuck in the Suez canal, blocking a critical trade route for hundreds of cargo ships, there was scarcely a person in the world who did not hear about the news. The incident shone a light on the sheer scale of the shipping industry, that most-present and yet little-seen form of mass movement of goods.