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Scooping Plastic Out of the Ocean Is a Losing Game hakaimagazine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hakaimagazine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Article content The waste has to be sorted by hand. “It’s fairly contaminated and it’s fairly complex to work with resin types,” said Dubois. The foundation also aims to educate consumers about plastic use, advocate policy to reduce the waste, develop infrastructure, and do cleanup and restoration. The pellets created will be used to create new plastic materials, which reduces the need for new plastic, said B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman. The pellets can be used to make such things as furniture and clothing. “We need to do more,” he said. “We need to keep this waste out of our oceans and out of landfill.” ....
Small ship tourism operators help remove 425 tonnes of trash from B.C. coastline vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Camping at night, hunting plastic by day: How crews are cleaning up remote stretches of B.C.'s coastline cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The cleanup projects are being done by the Small Ship Tour Operators Association, the Wilderness Tourism Association, Coastal Restoration Society, Ocean Legacy Foundation and the Songhees Development Corp. with each receiving between $1.5 million and $3.5 million. Heyman told a news conference the project will reduce pollution while creating jobs, and support local communities and Indigenous nations. The Clean Coast, Clean Waters Initiative was created after the government heard through consultation with local governments and individuals in 2019 about concerns over abandoned vessels, mooring buoys, polystyrene foam, aquaculture debris and single-use plastics. Heyman says the program is part of both the CleanBC Plastics Action Plan and the $10-billion COVID-19 response and economic recovery plan. ....