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Maldives island Swamped with Trash; Plastics Choking Animals; Removing Oil Easier with Nano-Coated Mesh
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 12:48
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Maldives island swamped by rising tide of waste. The low-lying coral islands of the Maldives scarcely rise more than 2m above sea level — except in one place: the “rubbish island” of Thilafushi, where 15m-high mounds of rubbish are heaped in a once-pristine lagoon.
Plastics choking animals targeted in G-7 clean-ocean push. The biggest advanced economies plan to urge the world to clean up plastic shopping bags and bottles clogging oceans.
Getting oil out of water is a lot easier when you’ve got this nano-coated mesh. A new technique may eventually be able to remediate oil spills without any chemicals—by using specially coated mesh to scoop oil directly out of water.
