ocean plastic pollution

VIDEO: Sailing ship turns ocean plastic pollution into energy

Classification society Bureau Veritas has awarded its Approval in Principle (AiP) to an innovative sailing vessel designed to not only collect floating ocean plastic pollution waste but to process it.

Called the Manta, the 56 meter long, 26 meter wide and 62 meter high sailing ship, will be equipped with an on-board factory including a waste-to-energy conversion unit.

Due to set sail at the end of 2025, the design was developed by Manta Innovation, the engineering design office of the SeaCleaners...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal-safety/environment/video-sailing-ship-turns-ocean-plastic-pollution-into-energy/

Concept ship aims to turn ocean plastic pollution into hydrogen

Could the plastic waste polluting the world’s oceans be scooped up and converted into clean hydrogen at sea? That’s the plan behind an innovative concept ship design being developed by New York City headquartered H2 Industries and Hamburg, Germany, naval architect firm TECHNOLOG services GmbH.

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at least 14 million tons of plastic wasteend up in the ocean every year. Plastic is found on the shorelines of every continent, with...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal-safety/environment/concept-ship-aims-to-turn-ocean-plastic-pollution-into-hydrogen/

Microsoft Makes Use Of Recycled Ocean Plastic In Its New Mouse

Microsoft's ocean plastic mouse

Microsoft has recently revealed a new mouse for computers. The unique fact about this device is that it is manufactured from recycled ocean plastics (20%) and a 100% reusable, plastic-free box (manufactured with sugarcane fibers and wood). The announcement was made at its Surface event hosted Wednesday.

An August 2020 pledge from the technology giant said that it will pursue zero-waste operations by 2030. It also spoke about putting an end to the use of single-use plastics in product packaging...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/microsoft-makes-use-of-recycled-ocean-plastic-for-its-new-mouse/

Record-Breaking Ocean Plastic Removal Mission Receives $25000 Challenge Grant

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Mission Resolve Foundation announced that it has gifted Ocean Voyages Institute $25,000 as a challenge grant to other sponsors to join them in their support of their critical upcoming second clean-up expedition. The highly successful first leg of this clean-up expedition includes collaborating organizations such as NASA, Smithsonian, Scripps Oceanography, University of Hawaii, and the University of Washington.

The expedition returned to Hawaii from the North Pacific Sub-Tropical Convergence Zone...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/record-breaking-ocean-plastic-removal-mission-receives-25000-challenge-grant/