Plastic pollution and marine debris. Photograph: © SAF – Coastal Care
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Nothing could have prepared mariner Ivan Macfadyen for the devastation all around him as he sailed the Pacific.
It was the silence that made this voyage different from all of those before it…
Maritime waste: Our oceans are threatened by a toxic tide, The Telegraph
The ocean can be a lonely place. Ivan MacFadyen expected long weeks of isolation when in March he set sail from Melbourne to race his yacht to Japan, and then on to San Francisco. Having completed the same race 10 years earlier, he expected the company of other ocean travellers…
Plastic Pollution- When The Mermaids Cry: The Great Plastic Tide, Coastal Care
The world population is living, working, vacationing, increasingly conglomerating along the coasts, and standing on the front row of the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic waste tide ever faced. Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form, the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the world’s oceans, yet mostly originating from where we stand: the land…
