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Coldplay will press its latest LP using recycled river plastic, intercepted by The Ocean Cleanup from Rio Las Vacas in Guatemala. The global band has confirmed that a limited Notebook Edition LP release of the band’s album Moon Music will be manufactured using reclaimed plastic. The mission of The Ocean Cleanup is to rid the […]
Torqeedo, a leading manufacturer of electric and hybrid drives for the marine market, plans to divert and integrate ocean-bound plastics into its emission-free boating products. Torqeedo has established a new advanced engineering team that, among other tasks, explores alternative materials to further minimise the environmental impact of its recreational and commercial marine products. The team is […]
A new study, led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the UK, has revealed five high-risk zones where floating plastic litter poses the greatest risk to North Atlantic marine life. Marine plastic litter is a truly global pollution problem. An estimated 19 to 23 million metric tons of plastic waste entered the world’s aquatic ecosystems in […]
The Ocean Cleanup has deployed its first Interceptor river cleanup solution in the Chao Phraya River, Bangkok – part of a wider partnership to tackle plastic pollution leaking from one the world’s busiest working rivers. Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit that has spearheaded technology that can essentially sweep oceans and waterways, picking up strewn rubbish and extracting it […]
Communities across Northern Spain are fearing an environmental disaster as millions of tiny pellets, which were spilled by a cargo ship off Portugal last month, continue to wash ashore. On 8 December 2023, the Liberia-registered Toconao, chartered by the shipping firm Maersk, lost six containers while sailing around 80km off northern Portugal. One of the […]
The planet has reached ‘Plastic Overshoot Day’ — the date when the amount of plastic waste outweighs the world’s ability to manage it — for the first time. New data published by plastic waste management data platform Plasteax and Swiss-basedassociation Environmental Action reveals 28 July 2023 was the date that humans could no longer effectively manage the plastic […]
Canada-headquartered electric boatbuilder Vision Marine Technologies has partnered with 4Ocean, a marine cleanup company focused on removing plastic and rubbish from the ocean and coastlines. As a newly anointed 4Ocean ‘Certified Cleanup Partner’, Vision Marine says it is ‘driving a transformative initiative to eliminate plastic waste from our oceans, rivers, and coastlines on a global […]
British marine conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) has revealed the ‘Dirty Dozen’ companies responsible for over two thirds of branded pollution, with Coca Cola topping the list for the fourth year running. McDonald’s has overtaken PepsiCo in 2023 to secure second place, with one in 10 polluting items collected by citizen scientists during the […]
Preliminary results from the initial legs of the current edition of The Ocean Race show microplastics in each one of the 40 samples analysed so far, with as many as 1,884 microplastics per cubic metre (pm3) of water in some locations. Samples analysed from leg two of the round-the-world sailing race, from Mindelo, Cabo Verde […]
International non-profit project, Ocean Cleanup, has signed a new agreement with government departments to remove tonnes of plastic from the Cisadane River in Indonesia. The company is set to deploy its new Interceptor Original before the end of 2023. The agreement was signed by the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, the Government of Tangerang […]
Researchers studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch have found dozens of different species of marine life thriving amid the piles of swirling plastic and debris — including species that are usually only found in coastal habitats. According to a new study published in the Nature Ecology & Evolution journal on 17 April 2023, coastal species […]