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Playing with the plastic wrapping for MM's 'Crinkled Wrinkled Folded Creased' theme, this one made me think of the huge masses of plastic floating in the oceans, a real disaster.
Macro Mondays - Trash
This is the plastic netting used to enclose fruit in a recyclable plastic container - bought from a local supermarket.
The labelling confirmed that the net is not currently recycled. The little cut out fish measures 6.5cm
I decided to use this as my subject for this weeks challenge to highlight the devastation of plastic netting in our oceans.
A lesser-known source of ocean plastic pollution is lost, abandoned and discarded fishing gear from commercial boats and fish farming causing untold damage to marine life and underwater ecosystems.
It's estimated that commercial fishing boats leave behind more than 700,000 tons of plastic waste each year.
Ocean pollution represented by a whale made of plastic waste
Bruges, Belgium
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A follow-on from yesterday's posts showing a Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), an endangered species, walking through the shoreline trash on Komodo Island National Park. The waters surrounding the Indonesian Island are full of trash, particularly plastic waste, and each tide washes more trash up onto the shorelines.
29/10/2017 www.allenfotowild.com
Long exposure wide angle image on the rocky coastline of Las Caletillas. Part of the Candelaria Thermal Power Plant can be seen above.
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This is all watercolor on paper and then digital manipulation in Photo Shop and Deep Dream Generator, but it looks like a combination of garbage from the sea...."Fish Sculptures from Trash" is a authentic, helpful way to emphasis ocean pollution. To learn more about the real sculptures see: www.greenecoservices.com/13-fantastic-fish-sculptures-mad...
Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network www.earthday.org/ and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year.
In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be celebrated on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a Proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later a separate Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. Nelson was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in recognition of his work. While this April 22 Earth Day was focused on the United States, an organization launched by Denis Hayes, who was the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and organized events in 141 nations. Numerous communities celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of activities focused on environmental issues.
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Here's a sad but happy ending story to add to the weight of attention being given to ocean pollution. This is another of the turnstones that kept me company in Tenerife recently. The remnant of fishing line is still obvious on the right leg and the left foot has been lost altogether - perhaps from the same fishing line. In spite of all this the bird appears perfectly healthy and easily kept up with the rest of the flock.
Just some of the marine life (?) washed up on the beach of Komodo Island; a lobster tail, a sea urchin shell and a teddy bear.
30/10/2017 www.allenfotowild.com
A new T-shirt with an illustration claming the need to protect the oceans. If pollution is not stopped, the objects of the illustration are going to be the only "species" that will see in the oceans in the future.
available in: www.etsy.com/es/shop/MostlyMarine
Una nueva camiseta con una ilustración que pretende llamar a la atención sobre uno de los problemas de los océanos, que es la polución. Si no se para la contaminación, en el futuro los objectos dibujados en esta camiseta son las únicas "especies" que veremos en los océanos.
Disponible en: www.etsy.com/es/shop/MostlyMarine
#salvaroceanos #protecttheocean #oceanpollution #oceancontamination #protegeroceanos
Oddly enough, in this age of climate change and rising ocean levels, the low tide at Balboa Island in Southern California is lower than I've ever seen it before.
Summer sailing in Balboa Bay, Newport Beach, Orange County, Southern California, with unusual black sails.
Amazing initiative by the The Pearl Protectors and Zero Trash, along with all the volunteers to construct this Christmas Tree using 1500+ PET Bottles to raise awareness about the challenges that marine environments face due to increasing plastic pollution.
Merry (Plastic-Free) Christmas to all those who are celebrating!! ✨🎄
PLASTIKATLAS | Appenzeller/Hecher/Sack, CC BY 4.0
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As we sailed from San Francisco, I never found a time when I could stand on deck for more than 5 minutes without seeing at least one piece of plastic; often I saw more than one. Some were very small, some were large. This one was relatively large, but there were larger. At one point we saw a raft of rope and plastic that was at least 5 meters long.
What have we done?
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The North Pacific Gyre is often spoken of as a garbage patch. But it is not a huge layer of plastic as far as the eye can see. This is part of it; it contains an overall huge amount of plastic, but not a continuous visible layer. Nonetheless it is an enormous area where there is more plastic than there should be, both visible and invisible.
The plastic does not biodegrade. It slowly breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces which are often eaten by organisms including small plankton, sea birds, marine mammals, and fish, but it isn't digested by any of these organisms. Its effects are insidious.
As the plastic drifts along it also works like a magnet for certain hydrophobic chemicals, including PCBs, DDE, and nonylphenols (NP). (see this article.)
These chemicals can be absorbed by organisms that swallow the plastic and then be bioaccumulated in the food chain.
Obviously a milk crate isn't going to be ingested in its entirety. However, most plastic out there isn't this large or strong. There is a lot of nylon rope, for example. The fibers in this rope weaken over time and break into smaller pieces which can easily be ingested. Other plastic, such as hurdles, are bite-sized for organisms like small fish or turtles. Even smaller pieces can and do get ingested by planktonic organisms. It's a mess.
There is also growing awareness that synthetic fabric is increasing the plastic load in the ocean. Each time a piece of synthetic clothing is washed, some of the fibers slough off and enter the wastewater system. These small fibers are too small to be filtered in a wastewater plant and a huge amount make it through treatment, into the effluent, and then into the ocean. These fibers also attract hydrophobic chemicals and are definitely small enough to be ingested by marine organisms.
Please help us reduce the plastic load in the oceans by using less of it, by disposing of the plastic you use properly, and by spreading the word.
Amazing initiative by the The Pearl Protectors and Zero Trash, along with all the volunteers to construct this Christmas Tree using 1500+ PET Bottles to raise awareness about the challenges that marine environments face due to increasing plastic pollution.
Merry (Plastic-Free) Christmas to all those who are celebrating!! ✨🎄
PLASTIKATLAS | Appenzeller/Hecher/Sack, CC BY 4.0
www.boell.de/en/2019/10/23/plastic-atlas-graphics-and-lic...
PLASTIKATLAS | Appenzeller/Hecher/Sack, CC BY 4.0
www.boell.de/en/2019/10/23/plastic-atlas-graphics-and-lic...
On the Blue Carpet at Heal the Bay's Annual Bring Back the Beach Benefit Dinner held on May 15th, 2014, at the Jonathan Beach Club in Santa Monica, California. Photo by Jason Koenig.
Heal the Bay board member and owner of Golden Road Brewing Meg Gill enjoying a Heal the Bay IPA with actress Julia Parker at our Annual Bring Back the Beach Benefit Dinner held on May 15th, 2014, at the Jonathan Beach Club in Santa Monica, California. Photo by Nick Fash
PLASTIKATLAS | Appenzeller/Hecher/Sack, CC BY 4.0
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Brandon Boyd from the band Incubus, along with band members Jose Pasillas and Chris Kilmore, accepting the "Walk the Talk" Award at Heal the Bay's Annual Bring Back the Beach Benefit Dinner held on May 15th, 2014, at the Jonathan Beach Club in Santa Monica, California. Photo by Karen Wang
Heal the Bay President Ruskin Hartley, Tom Ford of SMBF, LA Sanitation's Adel H. Hagekhali, board member Mark Gold, LA Sanitation's Ali Poosti and Enrique Zaldivar honored at Heal the Bay's Annual Bring Back the Beach Benefit Dinner held on May 15th, 2014, at the Jonathan Beach Club in Santa Monica, California. Photo by Nick Fash