📣 #Teachers—encourage your students to apply for @EarthEcho’s new #MarinePlastics #ambassador program! 75 youth leaders will be selected to champion local #PlasticPollution mitigation projects in their communities! Learn more and apply by Mar 1 at earthecho.org/plastics-ambassadors 🌎♻️🌊

Many thanks to the 18 volunteers who turned up to Uidh on Saturday to clean the shoreline. This is the third time this year this beach has been cleaned.A total of 106kg was collected - mainly rope and twine along with 14kg of plastics.

#beachclean #vatersay #marineplastics #communityaction

#UNOceanConference Ends with Rising Support for Ocean Protection—and a Deeper Call for Action.

"Protecting marine ecosystems isn’t a choice—it’s a promise we must keep to every child." - Andrea Koehle Jones

www.charitree-foundation.org/news/save-th...

#highseastreaty #marineplastics #UNOC3 #Ocean

Plastics campaigners warn Australia’s pledge at UN needs to be matched with ‘high ambition at home’ Environment minister Murray Watt is returning from oceans conference where he pledged to curb the scourge of plastics and ratify a treaty to protect the high seas

Pleased to be quoted in this excellent piece by @readfearn.bsky.social

#unoceanconference #highseastreaty #marineplastics

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Microplastics pioneer named among TIME’s 100 most influential people of 2025 University of Plymouth news: Professor Richard Thompson OBE FRS has been included on the TIME100 list for his groundbreaking work to address the global...

Professor Richard Thompson led the first research to name #microplastics — now he’s been recognised by TIME as one of the world’s 100 most influential people of 2025!
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#PlasticTreaty #PlasticPollution #MarinePlastics
www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/micropl...

BluePoint Solving Marine Plastic Pollution Technologies for Marine Plastic Value Chain Tuesday 13th May 2025 ATU Sligo - click on link to attend

BluePoint Solving Marine Plastic Pollution Technologies for Marine Plastic Value Chain Tuesday 13th May 2025 - Click on QR Code to attend

Tackling #Marine #PlasticPollution - Innovation in Action

📅 13th May 2025 | 10:00 – 14:00 | ATU Sligo

🔗 Don’t miss this chance to be part of the solution – register now! ⬇️
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#BlueCircularEconomy
#Sustainability #MarinePlastics #Innovation #Recycling #ATUSligo

How Plastics Are Rewiring Nature A new study on the effects of plastic ingestion in birds finds links to organ failure and Alzheimer’s. What could this mean for health?

🚨 How Plastics Are Rewiring Nature 🚨

A new study examining effects of low-level plastic ingestion in seabird chicks shows fundamental changes associated with organ failure and Alzheimer’s disease.

Read more: medium.com/the-new-clim...

#environment #photojournalism #plastics #marineplastics

Video: Researchers Remove Plastic Drinking Straw From Sea Turtle’s Nostril - Reptiles Magazine The world's oceans aren't a trash dump.

Does anyone remember the video of the sea turtle with a plastic straw lodged up its nostril? #plasticstraws #plasticpollution #marineplastics #seaturtle #plasticstraw #oceanisntatrashcan reptilesmagazine.com/video-resear...

Packing up my #plastic ephemera, etc. in prep for tomorrow — a day w/ @piamako & @WilliamsCollege (at Mystic) re: #microplastics + #marineplastics + plastics’ #envhist and harder-to-see legacies. Plus I’ll finally witness #babylegs in action (@MaxLiboiron @JustineAmmendo1 🤗)!