Then he pulls out more plastic padding before discovering the cookies.
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Takeout apps may be indirectly encouraging restaurants to use more plastic.
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So, that means no more plastic bags, straws, cutlery or stirring sticks.
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They are so deadly violent—no more plastic toys in your hand.
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By 2050, there may be more plastic than fish in the ocean.
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Still, the ballot system (and more plastic tubs!) was not the issue.
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By 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than sea life.
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"I feel there is more plastic in the sea," said Dennis Yeung, 58.
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But far more plastic debris had accumulated in the Greenland and Barents Sea.
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By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the world's oceans.
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More plastic enters the world's oceans from China than from any other country.
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What's more, plastic straws have almost nothing to do with the climate crisis.
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"I think something in the trauma makes them more plastic," he told me.
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What's more, plastic leaches harmful chemicals that can be toxic to many marine organisms.
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There's still hope that our oceans won't end up with more plastic than fish.
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By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by weight.
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By 2050, it's estimated that there will be more plastic in the sea than fish.
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Experts predict that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
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At this rate, by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
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It's estimated that there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans by 2050.
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Some even estimate there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050.
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It is one thing to notice that the bags are plastic, so you are introducing more plastic into the ecosystem by using this, but I think the advantages of having more food available to you without wasting it outweigh the downsides of using more plastic.
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Some estimates say that by 2050, there could be more plastic than fish in the sea.
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By the middle of the century the ocean could contain more plastic than fish by weight.
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The earbuds are decidedly less minimalist than AirPods, with generally more plastic, including over-ear hooks.
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The alternative — a future where the oceans contain more plastic than fish — sounds bleak as hell.
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In the last decade, mankind produced more plastic than in the previous one hundred years combined.
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By the year 2050, scientists estimate the oceans will contain more plastic by weight than fish.
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Experts predict that in 30 years, there will be more plastic in our oceans than fish.
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An increasing number of plastic plants in the United States are creating even more plastic pollution.
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Even if it seems impossible that doesn't mean I won't try for a more plastic-free life.
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This unending churn all means that every minute there's more plastic junk piling up in the world.
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You&aposd find more plastic in the faces of certain coastal politicians, who I won&apost mention.
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Now we make them out of a more plastic type PVC, so customers love they don't break.
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But things look different from a world that's populated by more plastic lawn flamingos than living flamingos.
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And by 2050, the UN predicts that there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans.
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To Shamma, this suggests that the developed brain is even more "plastic" or adaptable than previously realized.
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Right now, experts estimate that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
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More plastic pickets went in, enclosing a muddy plot big enough for a serious game of catch.
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Only China dumps more plastic in the ocean than Indonesia, and much of it washes up in Bali.
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By 2050, a number of researchers expect the world's oceans to contain more plastic than fish, by weight.
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By 2050, there could be more plastic than fish in the seas by weight, according to one estimate.
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Experts are predicting that in a few decades, we might have more plastic than fish in our oceans.
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The fishermen say, however, that each year they pull more and more plastic waste out of the water.
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In a very short period of time we will have much more plastic than fish in the water.
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We know that the next tide will bring with it more plastic, more pollution and maybe more death.
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We know that the next tide will bring with it more plastic, more pollution and maybe more death.
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"Around the world, more consumer demand means more plastic, which in turn means more petrochemicals," the IEA said.
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Because the recipients lack the capacity to recycle it all, more plastic waste ends up in the sea.
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Consider again that striking figure: By 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish, by weight.
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Some researchers expect there to be more plastic than fish in the ocean, by weight, by the year 2050.
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Unless dumping stops, the United Nations says by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
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The company said Monday that it wants to collect and process more plastic packaging than it sells by 2025.
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"I use these a lot, and my thought every time is there's almost more plastic than cheese," Bonnaillie said.
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I tried to reuse those plastic baggies, but my snack routine started to feel more plastic than real food.
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Studies estimate that there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean when measured by weight by 2050.
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On current trends, by 240 there could be more plastic in the world's waters than fish, measured by weight.
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In 25 years, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean, so you'll be fishing for plastic.
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Others pointed out that the new lid would actually use more plastic than the straw and old lid combined.
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The thinking is that the farther you get from human centers, the more plastic gets there through the atmosphere.
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"Our cells are much more plastic, much more capable of responding to injury, than we ever thought," Fodde said.
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Ocean plastic pollution, by the numbers More plastic was produced in the last decade than ever before on earth.
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This year the forum warned that there would be more plastic than fish in weight in oceans by 2050.
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When he was 1003, he went scuba diving in Greece, where he said he saw more plastic than fish.
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"We cleared that out to hold more plastic molding machines," says Daniel O'Brien, the factory's vice president of operations.
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"If nothing is done [...] by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean," warned the report.
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That rate is forecast to quadruple in the next 34 years as people use more plastic, the report said.
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More plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050 The WEF report, based on analysis of 20 studies and interviews with 180 experts, also said only 14% of plastic packaging is collected for recycling and that there will be more plastic than fish calculated by weight in the world's oceans by 2050.
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Together, that makes cleaning it up expensive — particularly as manufacturers keep making more plastic, and we keep throwing it away.
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That can mean as much as 112 times more plastic than plankton, the first link in the marine food chain.
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No French supermarket trolley reaches the till without a six-pack of litre bottles, wrapped in yet more plastic film.
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When Boyan Slat was 230, he went diving in Greece, and was shocked to see more plastic bags than fish.
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Yet more plastic is likely to pile up in the polar region as pollution from lower latitudes continuously flows upward.
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"On current trends, in the next five years we'll be producing more plastic than all the twentieth century," he said.
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The World Economic Forum projects that by 20213, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by weight.
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Chemical makers, for their part, stand to gain if vehicles must be made ever lighter, potentially including more plastic parts.
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Europe also burns more plastic — about 40 percent of its nonfiber plastic waste — while the U.S. incinerates around 16 percent.
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And if we continue this trend, scientists predict there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050.
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In this period, a young child's brain is still forming, meaning it is more 'plastic' or changeable than at older ages.
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It's estimated that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish, according to the World Economic Forum.
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Microplastics are ubiquitous2015 studyRead More: More plastic pollution is swirling in the deep ocean than in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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They had more plastic spoons than anyone, they had the best response lines, they had people in tuxedos, they had footballs.
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Everyone else, meanwhile, needs to make sure more plastic makes it to recyclers rather than waterways that lead to the ocean.
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Allen and all stakeholders on efforts to recycle and recover more plastic material so that it doesn't become waste or ocean litter.
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These bottles will be completely empty and clean when all the product is squeezed out, meaning more plastic bottles will be recycled.
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At this rate, by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans by weight, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation estimates.
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But we're still talking about more plastic that needs to be collected and recycled and, more broadly, bottled water as a concept.
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That one, however, relies on a lot more plastic to get the job done, with a full over-the-ear hook system.
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"There is much more plastic debris floating here in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch than anywhere that I ever swam," Lecomte said.
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Plus there's more plastic when you consider all the other things that come in bags, like grains, snacks, chocolate chips, etc.2.
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I was constantly trying to stay hydrated, and I ended up using way more plastic cups than I would have wanted to.
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I also wondered how it is possible that researchers now predict there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050.
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One of the most frightening illustrations of this fact is a prediction that by 2050, our oceans will contain more plastic than fish.
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For instance, on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, when we put out our trawls into the water, we got more plastic that fish.
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The first one, published by the Wold Economic Forum, finds that by 21.2, the oceans will contain more plastic than fish by weight.
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Slat, who was 16 at the time, previously told Business Insider that he saw more plastic bags than fish during that diving trip.
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One staggering factoid: "By mid-century, it is estimated that the ocean could have more plastic than fish by weight," the OECD notes.
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Now, that's all changing as more and more plastic surgeons gravitate toward Snapchat to document Brazilian Butt Lifts, breast augmentations, and tummy tucks.
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In these ads, The Seventh Continent's diplomat—a giant trash bag—thanks the public for expanding its territory by consuming ever more plastic.
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According to the World Economic Forum, China's Yangtze river carries more plastic pollution into the ocean than any other waterway in the world.
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The discrepancy suggests that the babies brought up in cold conditions have more plastic phenotypes when it comes to adjusting to temperature changes.
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Cheese at center of the wheel, which wouldn't have any of the rind on it, will be more plastic-y, cleaner, and mild.
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What we really want is for companies to give us choices of more plastic-free products or products that can be reused or refillable.
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Analysts predict that by 2050 there will be more plastic in our oceans than fish (plastic's environmental cost exceeds its profits in the U.S.).
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Slat also announced that instead of creating one massive machine, they will create a fleet of smaller machines to rotate around, collecting more plastic.
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Scientists estimate that there are 5.25 trillion bits of plastic debris in the oceans worldwide — that's more plastic pieces than stars in our galaxy.
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Another report, published by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, predicted that by 163 there could be more plastic than fish, by weight, in the oceans.
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The Swiss Alps had more plastic particles than the Arctic, likely due to the region's proximity to densely populated areas compared to the Arctic.
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More plastic surgeons are gravitating toward Snapchat to document their work, and there don't seem to be signs of inside-the-operating-room fatigue.
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We know that we may have more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050, which is a really sad state for the ocean.
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While it's necessary to prevent more plastic from entering the ocean, what is there already isn't going to go away by itself, he added.
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"We're on track, if we keep polluting as we are, to have more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050," she told CNBC.
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"I went scuba diving in Greece and I actually saw more plastic bags than fish around me," said the Ocean Cleanup CEO and founder.
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In 25, a report by the World Economic Forum suggested that by 25, the world's oceans would contain more plastic by weight than fish.
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By then, there might be more plastic than fish in the world's oceans, says a report released earlier this year by the World Economic Forum.
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According to a 2016 New Plastic Economy report, it is estimated there will be more plastic in the ocean than straws by the year 2050.
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China stopped processing other countries' waste in 2017, leading to more plastic waste being diverted to southeast Asia, especially Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, campaigners say.
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By the middle of the century the sea could contain more plastic than fish by weight, according to research done for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
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According to a 2016 New Plastic Economy report, it is estimated there will be more plastic in the ocean than straws by the year 2050.
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They estimated hundreds of tons of plastic fragments bobbing in the surface waters there, with even more plastic likely piling up on the seafloor below.
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A recent report by the World Economic Forum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation predicted that by 2050, the oceans will contain more plastic than fish.
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In the '90s, more plastic surgeons began performing endoscopic brow lifts, which require two to four small incisions behind the hairline to elevate the brow.
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It is estimated that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans by weight if current rates of plastic dumping hold.
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While the Paperwhite — smaller, cheaper, and more plastic-y — is Amazon's best-selling e-reader, the Oasis is the one that customers are supposed to want.
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After 30 vessels spent three years dragging nets through the pollution gyre, researchers concluded it had at least four times more plastic than scientists previously thought.
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Hell, a report presented earlier this year at the World Economic Forum says that there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050.
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More plastic is entering the ocean every day, mostly, due to the growth of plastics production in "high leakage markets"—developing countries with inadequate waste management.
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It all started on a holiday in Greece when the Dutch national went scuba-diving and saw more plastic bags swimming in the sea than fish.
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But children often do better in recovering from chronic pain than adults do, Dr. Schechter said, because their brains and their nervous systems are more plastic.
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According to recent estimates, at the current pace of global straw use, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by the year 2050.
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The polyester-cotton blend shed the least amount of fibers on average, but the addition of bio-detergents or conditioners caused more plastic particles to be released.
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Now more is going into bottles because the technology has improved, we're collecting more plastic, and consumers are more aware and are asking for more recycled content.
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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has estimated that the ocean "could have more plastic than fish by weight" by the middle of this century.
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"I was diving in Greece and realised I was coming across more plastic bags than fish, and I wondered why don't we clean this up," he said.
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Research shows there will be more plastic than fish by weight in the world's oceans by 2050, which has spurred policy makers, individuals and companies into action.
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"I was diving in Greece and realized I was coming across more plastic bags than fish, and I wondered why don't we clean this up," he said.
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Unfortunately, the new lid is not recyclable in most locations across the country and it actually contains more plastic than the previous lid and straws did combined.
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But roughly 90 percent of the world's ocean stocks are depleted or overexploited; one study predicts that by 2050, the sea could contain more plastic waste than fish.
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By 2050 we will have an ocean with more plastic than fish, according to the WEF… all of these issues could be addressed through 'fourth industry revolution technology.
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In fact, the ocean is expected to contain more plastic than fish by 2050, according to a report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
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If current pollution rates continue, there will be more plastic in the sea than fish by 2050, said the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) which organized the meeting.
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"You must be aware of all the reports that say the world is awash in plastic and the last thing it needs is more plastic," a reporter said.
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King has also removed the fries from their paper pouch and dumped them onto a plastic oval tray, because God knows we need more plastic in the world.
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Nowhere, apart from China, according to a Science journal report in 2015, dumps more plastic waste in the sea than Indonesia, an archipelago nation of 260 million people.
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Nowhere, apart from China, according to a Science journal report in 2015, dumps more plastic waste in the sea than Indonesia, an archipelago nation of 260 million people.
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Such moves are setting up a showdown with the oil industry, which is pouring billions into new facilities to produce more plastic and other petrochemical products, particularly in Asia.
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He said it was "impossible" for the world to carry on using plastic as it has before, "or we risk there being more plastic in the sea than fish".
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Though we're born with certain predispositions and resiliencies, he explained that our nature is even more plastic than we realize: "We haven't found anything that's completely genetic," he says.
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Pinball is a fitting culmination for this program, which documents the growth of an artist striving to conjure ever more expressive forms and access a more plastic representation of time.
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According to a report from Ocean Conservancy , five Asian countries—China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam—are dumping more plastic into the oceans than the rest of the world combined.
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In 216, Moore published the results of his studies: there was six times more plastic in the gyre, by mass, than there was zooplankton, the base of the food chain.
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"Not only did it give him the bunny ears, but it made his skin even more plastic — and he's got really smooth skin, he's a one-year-old," she added.
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If that doesn't happen we can expect ever-more plastic in the bodies of ever-more of the world's beleaguered, ailing, toxified creatures; a list that will increasingly include us.
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The conclusion was inescapable: There is more and more plastic being added to the Garbage Patch each year, with far less plastic escaping, to the point where it's undergoing exponential growth.
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Cleaning up the oceans is a very complex issue but the crucial thing is to stop more plastic waste entering the seas, and then think about cleaning it up, Maes said.
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"It would be prudent to halt plastic burning, as our data indicates that more plastic burning will result in more dioxin formation and pollution," the study's authors said in a statement.
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"The more and more birds she cut open, the more and more plastic she found, especially in the sick birds that were then more likely to develop a parasite," Brandon adds.
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"A great deal of money is being spent on this Ocean Cleanup device," Goldstein said, "when there are various other methods that remove a lot more plastic, for a lot less money."
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According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, by the year 2050 the ocean will actually contain more plastic than fish (measured by weight) and water bottles are a huge part of that problem.
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"We know that vasculature can become weaker with aging, and we need to find ways to keep our (blood vessels) healthy so that our brain can remain more plastic," Dr. Boldrini said.
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Because if we don't change our habits, there will be nearly more plastic than fish in our seas by the time my generation's grandchildren are able to take their first swim lessons.
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If we consumers are to blame, how is it possible that we fail to react when a study reports that there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans by 83?
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The 40-year old became a strong advocate for ocean conservation when he started to "personally notice there was less fish and more plastic" in waters, he told CNBC's Street Signs on Wednesday.
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In a sign of the scale of the challenge, a new 202,22025-square meter hall with blow-molding technology to make more plastic tanks went on stream only in September, the sources said.
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In a sign of the scale of the challenge, a new 22020,202-square meter hall with blow-molding technology to make more plastic tanks went on stream only in September, the sources said.
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If you have a Venmo account and you're ready to make space in your wallet for more plastic, you can get in line here to apply for a limited release of the card.
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Since 1988, nearly half of the planet's plastic trash — like single-use soda bottles, food wrappers, and plastic bags — has been sent to China, where the material is recycled to make more plastic goods.
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"If we continue like this, by 2050, we will have more plastic in the ocean than fish," said Habib El-Habr, an expert on marine litter working with the U.N. Environment Programme in Kenya.
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Millions of tonnes of plastic - from food packaging to fashion fibers and fishing gear - enters the sea each year leading some marine experts to warn there could be more plastic than fish by 2050.
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The school also has a "People for Alternatives Against Plastic" club, in which students try to raise awareness of the effects of plastics, and think of ways the school could be more plastic free.
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The project would "expose Appalachian residents to increased harm from fracking and industrial toxic emissions, while creating more plastic trash that is filling our oceans," said Wenonah Hauter, executive director at Food & Water Watch.
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One member of the European Parliament who backed the ban said that "by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans" if the body did not act, according to the BBC.
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In December, almost 200 nations signed a U.N. resolution to eliminate plastic pollution in the oceans, with the U.N. Environment Agency projecting that there could be more plastic in the sea than fish by 2050.
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"Lead US Geologic Survey researcher Gregory Weatherbee told The Guardian: "I think the most important result that we can share with the American public is that there's more plastic out there than meets the eye.
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"We are moving into a world where they understand that and certainly the generation after them that's been educated that we're going to have more plastic in the ocean than fish in 2050," he said.
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The Ellen Macarthur Foundation estimates that 303 million tons of plastic were produced in 2014, which will double within 20 years, and projects that there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans by 2050.
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The ideal landscapes promoted by the water manufacturers are undermined as Emrich adds more plastic to his images: packaging bubbles are injected with water and layered on top of the labels to produce a distorted effect.
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"At current rates, by 2050, there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish, wreaking havoc on marine fisheries, wildlife and tourism," the program said in a statement when Kenya's ban was announced in March.
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Unless we act, by 113, there might be more plastic waste than fish in the sea, and, dear friends, we will not survive on plastic fish, no matter how we will advance and progress in the future.
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Unless we act, by 113, there might be more plastic waste than fish in the sea, and, dear friends, we will not survive on plastic fish, no matter how we will advance and progress in the future.
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It is estimated that there are 150 million tons of plastic in the ocean, and that if we continue on the path we're on now there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050.
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Boyan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup initiative, has dreamed of cleaning plastic from our oceans ever since going scuba diving in Greece at a young age and finding more plastic bags than fish in the sea.
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As it stands today, global plastic production is set to double in the next 20 years and quadruple to 318 million tonnes by 2050, at which point the ocean will contain more plastic than fish by weight.
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Starring Ex Machina actress and dancer Sonoya Mizuno performing choreography by British choreographer Wayne McGregor, the video explores the cyborgian theme of prosthetic limbs and embodiment, seeing her body become more and more plastic as time goes on.
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Marine experts fear there could be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050, measured by weight, according to a factsheet from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a UK-based charity working to end waste in the economy.
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The United Nations says it is as if a garbage truck full of plastic was dumped into the water every minute, a rate some estimates show could lead to oceans carrying more plastic than fish in 30 years.
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THANH HOA, Vietnam (Reuters) - There's almost more plastic than sand on this long, tree-lined beach: Plastic helmets, plastic furniture and the plastic leg of a shop mannequin all jut out of an ocean of blue plastic bags.
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"China's refusal to accept more plastic waste, and the resulting backlog in plastic exporting nations, shows that we can't recycle our way out of this mess while we continue to make the mess bigger," Greenpeace said in a statement.
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Eight million tons of plastic enter the water each year, according to the World Economic Forum, and more plastic is expected in our oceans than fish by 2050 in terms of weight, if our current usage of plastic continues.
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The 3R Initiative - also backed by Swiss food giant Nestle, which owns Perrier and Vittel bottled waters, and French utility Veolia - aims to reduce, recover and recycle more plastic waste by helping companies measure and reach pollution-cutting goals.
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Satellites and sensors help researchers monitor the device's locationSlat said he plans to build a larger version of the system next year that could capture more plastic, though his team is still trying to determine what the precise size should be.
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Today's headlines can be scary: Our waters are warmer than ever; there are less fish in our seas; one-third of the coral reefs are being bleached, and by 2050, there could be more plastic than fish floating in our oceans.
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"If we don't do anything about this, 50 years down the road, we will have more plastic than fish in the oceans," Frans Timmermans, the vice president of the European Commission, the European Union's executive body, told reporters in January.
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So the race is on to dig more latrines, get swimming-pool quantities of clean water into the camps, and pass out more soap, more water-treatment tablets and more plastic buckets — decidedly low-tech supplies that could save many lives.
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As we approach a world in which the oceans will have more plastic than fish by 2050, it seems as if it will be more and more important to know where your seafood came from and what, exactly, you're eating.
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" Now the singer has no intentions of getting more plastic surgery, announcing in a tweet last week, "I been working out for the past 2 weeks cause bitch I ain't getting surgery again but let me tell you I haven't got a headache ever since .
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" Rachelle Hampton at Slate wrote that "the Forever Roll suggests a shifting tide, not toward new 'innovations' that require more plastic packaging, but toward smartly portioned products that actually makes sense for the 'party for one' more and more of us are throwing these days.
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At the same time, supermarkets can't seem to help themselves from overpackaging items to the point of perversion, like a single banana — which already comes in its own Mother Nature-approved wrapper — plated on a Styrofoam tray and shrink-wrapped in even more plastic.
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Thanks in large part to humans, a litany of ailments plague our seas: there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans by 2050; overfishing is a perpetual concern; and as waters warm due to global warming, harmful algal blooms that harm wildlife thrive.
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The United Nations, which estimates that, by weight, there will be more plastic than fish in the world's oceans by 2050 if the world doesn't act, has begun a #CleanSeas campaign to eliminate the use of plastic microbeads and single-use plastic bags by 2022.
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Read more: Plastic water bottles are banned at San Francisco Airport starting this week — here's what you need to knowAfter it was fixed, she said, the plane taxied again before the pilot announced that they were being forced to change their planned routing because of weather issues.
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Since China no longer processes other countries&apos waste, the US needs to find an alternative to burning its trashFor decades, the US sold more than half of its recyclables to China — mostly plastics to be melted into pellets, the raw material for making more plastic.
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But while industry points to a lack of waste management infrastructure in poor countries as a cause of the ocean plastic problem, Americans use dozens of times more plastic per capita than Indians, five times more than Indonesians, and nearly three times as much as Chinese.
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A new report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation of the World Economic Forum paints a dire picture, projecting that there will be one ton of plastic in the ocean for every three tons of fish by 2025, and more plastic by weight than fish by 2050.
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The organization plans to build a fleet of plastic-cleaning arraysSlat told Business Insider in September that he planned to build a larger version of the system next year that could capture more plastic, though his team was still trying to determine what the precise size should be.
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The United Nations Environment Program estimates that some eight million tons of plastic waste end up in the oceans each year, while a 2016 World Economic Forum report projects that there will be more plastic than fish by weight in the oceans by 2050 if current trends continue.
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The long-haul meals — a five-spice chicken with rice and green beans, scrambled eggs with bits of turkey and a side of seasoned potatoes — stewed in still more plastic, including individual bags for the rolls, miscellaneous containers for the attendant spreads and condiments, and disposable plastic sheaths that swaddled an assemblage of equally disposable plastic flatware.
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More alarming stats: Of those 8 million tons, 236,000 tons are micro-plastics, which are smaller than your fingernail; by 2050, it's expected there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish; there are several masses of plastic that float across the oceans, like one between Hawaii and California that is twice the size of Texas.
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For example, even though eliminating plastic straws from Starbucks could remove billions of straws per year, she points out that the strawless lids they replaced them with are still considered a single-use plastic, and though they tout them as being more recyclable, that means they have a higher structural integrity and use more plastic to create.
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Plastic shards, beads, and fibers were identified in more than 90% of rainwater samples taken from across Colorado, including at more than 3,000 metres high in Rocky Mountain National Park"I think the most important result that we can share with the American public is that there's more plastic out there than meets the eye," Lead US Geologic Survey researcher Gregory Weatherbee told The Guardian.
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