The Interceptor 004, a vessel that will gather plastics o the Ozama River and prevent them from reaching the Caribbean Sea, has already set sail for the Dominican Republic from Rotterdam port in the Netherlands. The NGO Countries Under The Ocean Cleanup, which donated the vessel, tweeted the announcement. “Last night in Rotterdam, we said […]
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A report by Palko Karasz for the New York Times. Come for the beaches, say tourism ads for the Dominican Republic. But it has some beaches you might want to skip right now. The Caribbean nation is known for sapphire seas and ivory beaches, but it is grappling with waves of garbage washing up on […]
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ScienceDaily Researchers studied recent extinctions from climate change to estimate the loss of plant and animal species by 2070. Their results suggest that as many as one in three species could face extinction unless warming is reduced. Read article at One-third of plant and animal species could be gone in 50 years — ScienceDaily
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To continue with the theme of getting ready and getting pretty, let’s have a quick re-visit to our “toilette.” The French refer to the “toilette” as the act of dressing or grooming oneself. Daily….we can only hope…. Remember Dear Reader, we are not going for perfect. Perfect doesn’t exist. We are looking for better. Better […]
A report from The Jamaica Information Service. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the benefits to be derived from the ban on single-use plastics and polystyrene foam will materialise over the medium to long-term. He noted that as the society adjusts to the measure “you are going to see less plastics [and polystyrene] littering […]
via Jamaica Will See Benefits Of Plastics And Polystyrene Ban — Repeating Islands
The Yucatan Times reports that seven countries in the Caribbean region—Jamaica, Belize, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Bahamas—will ban the use of single-use plastic from January 1, 2020. Starting January 1st, 2020, single-use plastics and polystyrene will be banned in seven Caribbean countries, with the main objective of preventing ocean pollution […]
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A report by Daphne Ewing-Chow for Forbes. In 2016, global plastic waste amounted to some 242 million metric tons. Of this, 137 million tonnes (or more than 57%) originated in East Asia, the Pacific, Europe, Central Asia and North America, much of which made its way into the ocean. In 2015, the Journal of Science surveyed […]
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