4Ocean - International Clean Up Movement

Help Clean Up Our Oceans With 4Ocean

Visit website: https://4ocean.com/

No Shimmer: Why Scientists Want to Ban Glitter

Credit: Dragon Images/Shutterstock

Quoting article by Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor:

It's sparkly, it's festive and some scientists want to see it swept from the face of the Earth.

Glitter should be banned, researcher Trisia Farrelly, a senior lecturer in environment and planning at Massey University in New Zealand, told CBS. The reason? Glitter is made of microplastic, a piece of plastic less than 0.19 inches (5 millimeters) in length. Specifically, glitter is made up of bits of a polymer called polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which goes by the trade name Mylar. And though it comes in all sizes, glitter is typically just a millimeter or so across, Live Science previously reported.

Microplastics make up a major proportion of ocean pollution. A 2014 study in the open-access journal PLOS ONE estimated that there are about 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic weighing a total of 268,940 tons (243,978 metric tons) floating in the world's seas. Microplastics made up 92.4 percent of the total count.

 Read full article here:

No Shimmer: Why Scientists Want to Ban Glitter

Visit Water World

 

No, Water World is not an amusement park. And, it's not the movie, either.  - It's actually about water!

 

Visit the Water World website to read articles on:

 

Drinking Water
Waste Water
Urban Stormwater
Water Utility Management 


Click here: http://www.waterworld.com/index/more-news.html

In Case You Missed It...

Here's a headline from 2009:

It’s Now Legal to Catch a Raindrop in Colorado

By KIRK JOHNSONJUNE 28, 2009

Todd S. Anderson used to keep his rain harvesting a secret. Credit Rick Scibelli Jr. for The New York Times

Quoting article:

DURANGO, Colo. — For the first time since territorial days, rain will be free for the catching here, as more and more thirsty states part ways with one of the most entrenched codes of the West.

Precipitation, every last drop or flake, was assigned ownership from the moment it fell in many Western states, making scofflaws of people who scooped rainfall from their own gutters. In some instances, the rights to that water were assigned a century or more ago.

Now two new laws in Colorado will allow many people to collect rainwater legally. The laws are the latest crack in the rainwater edifice, as other states, driven by population growth, drought, or declining groundwater in their aquifers, have already opened the skies or begun actively encouraging people to collect.

“I was so willing to go to jail for catching water on my roof and watering my garden,” said Tom Bartels, a video producer here in southwestern Colorado, who has been illegally watering his vegetables and fruit trees from tanks attached to his gutters. “But now I’m not a criminal.”

Who owns the sky, anyway? In most of the country, that is a question for philosophy class or bad poetry. In the West, lawyers parse it with straight faces and serious intent. The result, especially stark here in the Four Corners area of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, is a crazy quilt of rules and regulations — and an entire subculture of people like Mr. Bartels who have been using the rain nature provided but laws forbade.

###

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/us/29rain.html

The Story of Bottled Water

Story of Stuff (2007, OFFICIAL Version)