Day 3061: ...we can still be hopeful.

 

 

"His vision": photo, collage, and digital.

 

 

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Our Plastic Problem Has Reached a Tipping Point—But we can still be hopeful ... excerpts from an in depth article, here.

 

 

Face masks, gloves, and other discarded plastic in the Red Sea.

Photojournalist Rich Carey captured a whale shark filter-feeding in an ocean littered with plastic debris.

“This year has just exacerbated all of the issues, but the silver lining is that it’s also shining a really bright spotlight on what needs to be done to solve this pollution crisis.”

Nearly every component of Tom Ford’s new watch is made from ocean plastic, repurposing 35 plastic bottles in total.

 

Lonely Whale, just announced the Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize, which will award $1 million to the best non-toxic alternative to thin-film plastic. 

House of Fluff’s new “shearling” coats are made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic.

 

 

“We need innovation to move faster, but every single one of us also needs to be careful about how we’re dealing with resources,” Gutsch says.

Parley organizes global beach clean-ups and transforms the recovered plastic into a fine performance fiber.

“The capacity of this planet to take on more of our toxic products and materials has been reached. We simply can’t be as wasteful as we were in the past.

NextWave Plastics, a Lonely Whale partner, has organized a global supply chain network for plastic diverted from oceans.

 

 

 

•  A lovely 3+minute video, Thailand/music, here.

•  A 6-minute musical video, Clapton & McCarthy, here.

•  A heart-warming 3-minute video, rescue, here.

 

Just because ...

 

Crested coua

 

                        

Smiles for Sunday ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

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