May 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Ending plastic pollution is a growing concern for most people, our conditioning to convenience has cost us more than we originally knew. It’s believed that inorganic matter will outweigh living creature in the ocean by 2050. That’s less than 30 years from...
May 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
You read that right, what you wear every day is adding to ocean pollution, and it comes down to the way we wash them too. Researchers have found that up to 700,000 microplastics can be released with each wash cycle with plastic-based clothing. That’s a lot for...
May 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
What’s one way to cut down your carbon impact? Try eating less meat! I’m not suggesting everyone becomes vegan overnight, but here are a few reasonable reasons why we should maybe have less. What’s my beef? I know, burgers are SO GOOD! But did you...
May 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
Plastic pollution in the ocean is a global complication. Plastic concentrations in the ocean reach 580,000 pieces per km2 while production is growing exponentially. (Wilox, Sebille, Hardesty 2015) It is predicted that by 2050 plastic ingestion exposure among seabirds...
May 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
The first elastic polymer was invented in 1869 by John Wesley Hyatt as a substitute for ivory, which was commonly used in billiards. For the first time, mankind was not confined to the limitation of nature in manufacturing. Originally this invention was touted and...
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