｜引言：從海洋到餐桌，別當摧毀地球的加害者
一次性塑膠用品已成為全球環境面臨的重大威脅之一。據估計，全球每年使用和製造的塑料量已經高達4億噸，其中約有50%用於生產一次性塑膠產品。而這些產品的使用壽命極短，一般只有幾分鐘甚至幾秒鐘。

職場產業

投資理財

文化生活

ESG企業永續經營｜惡性循環！「用完就丟」、「用後不理」一次性塑膠用品使用量驚人，全球環境遭受嚴重威脅！MAT美特行銷

國際

用7歲以上到70歲都看得懂的方式，輕鬆簡單的來聊ESG永續經營。讓企業家一代輕鬆上手，讓即將接手的二代盡情發揮～中小企業、自營業、小農小店、個人工作室，讓我成為你的夥伴，一起學習成長，將台灣在地產業發揚光大。

陳萱羚的沙龍


內容引自《海洋到底有多深：你所不知道的海底世界》
還有更多有趣的海洋知識內容，趕緊入手這本書吧！

Readmoo讀墨電子書：《海洋到底有多深：你所不知道的海底世界》


閱讀書評

創作

海洋到底有多深？一張圖總整理你所不知道的海底世界

學習

海洋清潔工作在四個禮拜以前正式走入第二章。「海洋吸塵器」發明人正式告訴世界，他已經準備好要開始關水龍頭了。

觀點

海洋吸塵器下一章：到了關水龍頭的時候了──海洋淸潔另一項新發明「河川垃圾攔截器」

全世界都是向 Google 看，向臉書看，沒有人往矽谷的另一邊看。所以我要帶你看矽谷很少有人知道的另一面。矽谷不是你想的那樣。


鱸魚的沙龍

Boyan Slat, CEO and Founder of the Ocean Cleanup, details the design modifications for System 001/B. These upgrades entail two options to speed up the system or slow it down. Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/371k8sN 

Additionally, by taking a modular approach to the design, we can iterate at a much swifter speed and adjust the technology as we learn more. All with the aim of reaching proof of technology and commencing cleanup of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch as soon as possible.

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Trash accumulates in five ocean garbage patches, the largest one being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located between Hawaii and California. If left to circulate, the plastic will impact our ecosystems, health, and economies. Solving it requires a combination of closing the source, and cleaning up what has already accumulated in the ocean.

The ocean is big. Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using conventional methods – vessels and nets – would take thousands of years and tens of billions of dollars to complete. Our passive systems are estimated to remove 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage patch in just five years, and at a fraction of the cost. 

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Read the full update: https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/system-design-upgrades-completed-to-be-relaunched-in-june/

And follow The Ocean Cleanup on:
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Boyan Slat on relaunching the cleanup system | System 001/B | Cleaning Oceans | The Ocean Cleanup

On Wednesday at 10am CET we will go live to share an important update about our cleanup system in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Tune in to hear the news firsthand and participate in a Q&A with Boyan Slat and the team.

Watch the stream on the website:
http://www.theoceancleanup.com/live

System001/B is catching plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Press Announcement

Video taken by "Parley for the Oceans" on July 14 shows a "dense garbage carpet" covering the water in Santo Domingo.

See wave of garbage crash off the Dominican Republic

The Ocean Cleanup develops technology to rid the world's oceans of plastic. To do so, we need to not only clean up the plastic that is currently there, but also stop new plastic from entering the ocean via rivers. Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/371k8sN

In order to clean the world's 1000 most polluting rivers, we build the Interceptor™. And here's how it works.

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To rid the oceans of plastic, we need to not only clean up what is already out there, but also stop new plastic from entering the ocean: we need to close the tap. 

Rivers are the main source of ocean plastic pollution. They are the arteries that carry waste from land to the ocean. Our research found that 1000 rivers are responsible for roughly 80% of the pollution.

Working together with government leaders and private corporations, our goal is to tackle these 1000 most polluting rivers, all over the world, by 2025. How? By deploying Interceptors. 

The Interceptor is The Ocean Cleanup’s answer for river plastic waste. It is the first scalable solution to prevent plastic from entering the world’s oceans from rivers.

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Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay updated.

And follow The Ocean Cleanup on:
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#theoceancleanup #howitworks

Explaining the Interceptor | Cleaning Rivers | The Ocean Cleanup

On October 26 2019, Boyan Slat presented the plan to address the main source of ocean plastic: rivers. Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/371k8sN

We aim to tackle the 1,000 most polluting rivers, responsible for about 80% of ocean plastic pollution, before the end of 2025.

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To rid the oceans of plastic, we need to not only clean up what is already out there, but also stop new plastic from entering the ocean: we need to close the tap. 

Rivers are the main source of ocean plastic pollution. They are the arteries that carry waste from land to the ocean. Our research found that 1000 rivers are responsible for roughly 80% of the pollution.

Working together with government leaders and private corporations, our goal is to tackle these 1000 most polluting rivers, all over the world, by 2025. How? By deploying Interceptors. 

The Interceptor is The Ocean Cleanup’s answer for river plastic waste. It is the first scalable solution to prevent plastic from entering the world’s oceans from rivers.

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Find more information:
https://theoceancleanup.com/rivers/

Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay updated.

And follow The Ocean Cleanup on:
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#theoceancleanup #boyanslat

Boyan Slat unveils the Interceptor River Cleanup system | Cleaning Rivers | The Ocean Cleanup

關於少用(不使用)塑膠吸管，這幾年已經被提倡到爛掉了。
當然，如果你是一個關心環保議題的人絕對會了解到，即便都不使用塑膠吸管，也無法解決海洋垃圾氾濫的問題，那是整個現代人類生活幾乎無法避免的污染現象，但我希望至少能盡量的不使用，很難...真的很難，一起加油！
不只是海龜，很多地球的後代都需要我們的努

藝文

守護一個未來

圖文

這裡是烏賊DA分享插畫創作與一些奇獵小故事的地方。

烏賊DA的沙龍

音樂藝文

吸管這個微不足道的小東西，過去130年來一直帶給人類重度依賴的小方便。但 2015 年 YouTube 的一部短片，把人類從吸管所帶給我們的悠閑與歡樂中一巴掌打醒。

很慶幸，面對吸管，我們選擇了小題大做

While on a research project in Costa Rica, Nathan J. Robinson @Wild Blue Science removed a 10 cm (4 in) plastic straw that was entirely embedded into the nostril of an olive ridley sea turtle. Lamentably, this is a consequence of the world of single-use, non-biodegradable plastic that we currently live in.

There is a solution and it lies in our own decisions. Please say no to all single-use plastic. Every plastic straw, plastic bag, or plastic bottle that ends up in the oceans could mean the difference between life or death for any number of marine animals.

Straw Removed By: Nathan Robinson.
Video Recorded By: Christine Figgener.

Plastic Straw Removed From Sea Turtle's Nostril (Short Version)

This is the original video! Filmed by marine conservation biologist Christine Figgener, PhD.
***WARNING: Graphic Content & Inappropriate/ Strong Language!***
A research team led by Christine Figgener (Texas A&M University) found a male olive ridley sea turtle during an in-water research trip in Costa Rica. He had a 10-12 cm PLASTIC STRAW lodged in his nostril and they removed it. This video shows graphically why plastic waste is detrimental to marine life, especially single-use plastics (such as straws, which are one of the most redundant items). This turtle suffers from an item that is human-made and used by most of us frequently.

SAY "NO" TO PLASTIC STRAWS, AND ANY KIND OF ONE-TIME USE PLASTIC ITEMS!

Help Me Continue My Work of Saving Sea Turtles!
If you like what I am doing, please consider helping me to continue protecting and researching sea turtles. I cannot do it without your help. It only takes 500 of you, who can spare a fancy coffee per month, to make a real change. Download the new MilkyWire app and join me in saving sea turtles.
Thank you, you are amazing!

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To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please email licensing@storyful.com
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THE FULL STORY:
My research team found a male Olive Ridley sea turtle during an in-water research trip in Costa Rica. 
He had a 10-12 cm PLASTIC STRAW lodged in his nostril.

After initially thinking that we are looking at a parasitic worm, and trying to remove it to identify it, we cut a small piece off to investigate further and finally identified what we were REALLY looking at. 
After a short debate about what we should do we removed it with the plier of a swiss army knife which was the only tool available on our small boat (not intended for overnight stays), since we were on the ocean, in a developing country, a few hours away from the coast and several hours away from any vet (probably days from any vet specialised in reptiles, not to mention sea turtles) and x-ray machines. Plus, we would have incurred a penalty (up to time in jail) on ourselves by removing the turtle since that is beyond our research permits. He did very obviously not enjoy the procedure very much, but we hope that he is now able to breath more freely. 
The blood from the shoulder is from a 6mm skin biopsy we took previously to this event for a genetic study (part of our permitted research), which usually doesn't bleed much, but which started bleeding while restraining the turtle.
We disinfected the air passageway with iodine and kept the turtle for observation before releasing him back into the wild.
The bleeding stopped pretty much immediately after the removal of the straw, and when we released him, he swam happily away.

The turtle very likely swallowed the straw while ingesting other food items and then either expelled the straw together with the redundant sea water through her nostrils or regurgitated the straw and it ended up in the wrong passageway.  The nasal cavity of sea turtles is connected directly to the palate (roof of the mouth) by a long nasopharyngeal duct. 
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RELATED LINKS
The Plastic Pollution Coalition launched a "No Straw" Campaign in collaboration with us.
Take the No-Straw-Pledge and learn more:
http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition....
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The Story behind the viral video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLN52...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MPHb...

What are single-use plastic items?
http://www.greeneriepa.org/single-use...
http://singleuseplastic.co.uk/what-we...

What can you do?
REDUCE (REFUSE=STRAWS)/ RE-USE/ RECYCLE 
http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/rrr...

Organise your own beach cleanups!
An amazing plastic clean-up project is the TWO HANDS PROJECT, collect trash and post it on facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/twohandsproject
http://www.twohandsproject.org/

MORE INFO:
https://www.5gyres.org/
https://oceanlegacy.ca/
http://micro2016.sciencesconf.org/
http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/red...
http://www.plasticchange.org/en/om-pl...
http:/theoceancleanup.com

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Contact Email: christine.figgener@tamu.edu
Christine Figgener, PhD

海洋污染