Tag Archives: environment

OCEAN POLLUTION CONTINUES TO CLAIM INNOCENT LIVES

An oystercatcher killed by plastic waste at Killard Nature Reserve lays near Strangford in Northern Ireland.
Photographer Craig Nash says: “There were a few oystercatchers on the shoreline making a racket and as I approached two flew off and I noticed a dead one and was even more shocked to see the way that it [...]

WELCOME TO RECYCLED ISLAND

Check out a computer generated image of an island planned for somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
The island the size of Hawaii made entirely from plastic bottles could become the hottest postcode on Earth.
A team of Dutch scientists plan to take 44 million kilos of plastic waste currently bobbing around in the Pacific Ocean [...]

BOTTLE BUILDING

A man walks inside the main exhibition hall of the Taipei International Floral Exposition, made out of 1.5 million recycled plastic bottles, in Taipei, Taiwan on Monday (May 17).
The building with transparent walls and chandelier-like ceiling lights is called EcoARK, and is billed as the world’s first large structure fashioned from recycled plastic bottles.
The [...]

THE PS10 CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER TOWER

Check out the PS10 concentrated solar power tower near Seville Spain.
So how does it work? Simple. Thousands of mirrors reflect sunbeams onto the central tower.
British and European homes could soon be powered by “desert energy” after a group of powerful businesses joined forces in a massive renewable energy project that [...]

PLASTIC ROADS FIND USEFUL PURPOSE FOR WASTE PLASTIC

In Bangalore, India on Wednesday (December 2) roads could be seen getting laid using waste plastic.
Two Indian brothers making roads out of recycled plastic claim they have found a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with a surface that is more durable than tarmac.
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Over 140 km along 41 roads in Bangalore [...]

SEA BLOBS INDICATE GLOBAL WARMING?

These strange formations may look like the results of a gigantic sneeze in the sea but experts fear they might be a dangerous sign the world’s oceans are warming.
The scientists in this video studying the ghastly looking ‘blobs’ think they are caused by sea creatures becoming stressed by changes to their surroundings.
Marine Science [...]