Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Washed Ashore is a project of the Artula Institute for Art and Environmental Education U.S. 501(c)(3) grassroots non-profit environmental organization that works to bring awareness to the world's growing plastic pollution problem through art.
A plastic bucket used as an open-air flowerpot photodegraded after some years. Photodegradation is the alteration of materials by light. Commonly, the term is used loosely to refer to the combined action of sunlight and air, which cause oxidation and hydrolysis. Often photodegradation is intentionally avoided, since it destroys paintings and ...
Marine plastic pollution is a type of marine pollution by plastics, ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic material. Marine debris is mainly discarded human rubbish which floats on, or is suspended in the ocean. Eighty percent of marine debris is plastic.
Plastic bottles are known to constitute plastic marine pollution, and eventually break down into smaller pieces because of ultraviolet light, salt degradation or wave action. [162] Glass bottles can break into sharp-edged pieces, and bottle caps are ingested by sea birds.
It’s that time of year again: the thick of summer when sharks have caught America’s attention. Americans are spotting more sharks in the water. Here’s why that’s a good thing
Without naming the artwork or the artist, he stated that brush marks in the lace collar of a painting by Velázquez could be more radical than a shark "murkily disintegrating in its tank on the other side of the Thames". [24] Critics have also questioned the ethics of the part of Hirst's oeuvre that involves dead animals. One estimate puts the ...
We’re all guilty of refilling our plastic water bottles—but the consequences can be seriously harmful to your health. This is why you should never refill your plastic water bottle Skip to main ...
The plastic caps on milk cartons have gotten 21% shorter, to save weight. Water bottles are also thinner with shorter tops. It's not just you – bottles and cartons are now harder to open.