Welcome to Table Scraps, a monthly series on the growing problem of food-related waste and what some eateries, officials, farms, institutes, and everyday people are doing right. This isn’t a guilt trip, just a way to unpack initiatives attempting to reduce kitchen waste and food loss. We’re exploring backyard composting to city programs, restaurant tips to technology, and anything related to this global issue. Heat up those leftovers, and settle in.
In my memory, it was around 2018 that people started talking about how plastic straws kill turtles (or something) and that the right thing to do was to switch to reusable ones. That included paper straws (useless, but whatever), metal and silicone straws, biodegradable straws, even edible straws.
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Seedlip mobile website
Seedlip, a distilled non-alcoholic spirits company launched in 2015, has appointed global creative agency AnalogFolk to help evolve its direct-to-consumer business in the United States as its digital strategy and design partner.
The partners have announced the launch of Seedlip’s new mobile-first website, with functionalities that elevate and ease the online experience, while also implementing elements of surprise and delight.
AnalogFolk was appointed following a competitive pitch process. Ultimately, Seedlip selected its partner for mirroring its own brand values and having the ability to understand the unique challenges at-hand – putting the customer needs at the forefront of this new virtual destination.
Credit: Prof. Alan Deidun
That is the question that Prof. Alan Deidun, resident academic within the Department of Geosciences of the Faculty of Science, along with a cohort of high-profile co-authors, posed within a study recently published in the
Microplastics and Nanoplastics journal. Specifically, the study overviews a plethora of marine litter monitoring survey data available for different regions of the world ocean, as well as modelling data, in order to answer this compelling question.
The study, whose lead author is renowned litter researcher Dr Francois Galgani from IFREMER, concludes that, despite the well-known increase in the volume of plastics making their way to the marine domain from land, most studies indicate constant amounts of litter in coastal marine systems in recent years until 2019. For instance, collections of marine litter by Continuous Plankton Recorders showed relatively unchanged amounts trapped annually in the North East Atlantic since the year 2000, f
Sunshine Coast Council
It’s almost time for our baby turtle hatchlings to break out of their eggs and wiggle their way to the ocean, and Sunshine Coast Council is calling on the community to help clear the way.
Registrations are now open for the eighth annual Clean up for the Hatchlings event, at 17 locations from Coolum to Caloundra, on Saturday 30 January, 2021.
Volunteers are invited to register and meet at the beach of their choice at 6am to pick up litter and clean up the beach ready for the hatchlings.
From 8am at La Balsa Park, Buddina, all volunteers will come together to enjoy a free barbecue, participate in a prize draw and other fun activities, and most importantly, to weigh and sort the collected debris.