Hey! Me again, talking about our ocean plastic problem. I know, I’ve said it over and over and over (and over and over) again. But, I think it’s worth saying again — we have a plastic problem. We use a lot of plastic in our lives — some estimates put plastic use at nearly 300 […]
If you’ve read my blog before you would know I love me some ocean. And you would also know that I have written about some of the pollution issues it’s facing…repeatedly. I’ve written about our plastic problem enough that you are probably ready to punch me in the face. So to save you a little […]
I know, I know, I’m beginning to sound like a broken record, but I’m going to say it again anyway — we have a plastic problem. But in case you haven’t been reading, according to a 2015 study, an estimated 19.4 billion pounds of plastic wind up in the world’s oceans each year. And I […]
I think by now most people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but just to catch you up to speed, it is a giant collection of marine debris (i.e. litter that ends up in our oceans, seas and other large bodies of water) floating around in the North Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific […]