ocean plastic pollution Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 08:39:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Boyan Slat’s “The Ocean Cleanup” Prototype Deployed in the North Sea https://www.greenoptimistic.com/boyan-slat-ocean-cleanup-north-sea-20160627/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/boyan-slat-ocean-cleanup-north-sea-20160627/#respond Tue, 28 Jun 2016 08:39:49 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60171 First real size prototype of The Ocean Cleanup by Boyan Slat, was deployed in the North Sea last week. I have to admit, the first time I heard about The Ocean Cleanup, I thought of it as something great but super adventurous and slightly unrealistic. Fortunately, I was wrong- not about it being great, but […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/boyan-slat-ocean-cleanup-north-sea-20160627/feed/ 0 60171 Ocean Cleanup: World’s Largest Floating Structure to Launch Next Year https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ocean-cleanup-launch/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ocean-cleanup-launch/#respond Wed, 03 Jun 2015 04:28:41 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=55088 As a teenager, Boyan Slat read about the giant plastic islands floating in the worlds oceans. Six years later his foundation is about to launch the longest floating structure in the world, designed to rid the world’s oceans of plastic pollutants. Touted to be the largest cleanup in history, Slat’s foundation The Ocean Cleanup will place a 6500 feet […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ocean-cleanup-launch/feed/ 0 55088 New Recycled Plastic Bottles Made from 100% Ocean Plastic Debris https://www.greenoptimistic.com/recycled-plastic-bottles-ocean-plastic-debris/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/recycled-plastic-bottles-ocean-plastic-debris/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:16:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=54339 Method and Envision Plastics proposes recycling of ocean plastic debris into new, eco-friendly recycled plastic materials that can make up our future disposable bottles. We have covered the topic of reusing plastic bottles and recycled plastic quite extensively over the past few years. Plastic bottles, plastic bags, food packaging, all these contribute greatly to the overall state […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/recycled-plastic-bottles-ocean-plastic-debris/feed/ 1 54339 Giant Plastic Patches to Float on the Oceans For Hundreds of Years https://www.greenoptimistic.com/giant-plastic-patches-to-float-on-the-oceans-for-hundreds-of-years-20130110/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/giant-plastic-patches-to-float-on-the-oceans-for-hundreds-of-years-20130110/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:39:21 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=31121 Regardless of where in the world plastic garbage is thrown in the ocean, new research shows that it can get carried to any of the ocean basins. Scientists from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, based at UNSW, have established that even if we stop throwing plastics now, the places […]

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