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Fibreglass: How this emerging contaminant is polluting our coasts Original

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By Zeinab Zoveidadianpour, Juan José Alava
| The Conversation Verified
Walk along British Columbia’s shorelines and you quickly notice the signs of human-made activities and marine industry: boats anchored and hauled out for repair in marinas, abandoned vessels, the smell of fresh paint, workers sanding hulls and stacks of fibreglass materials waiting to be used. Most people would not see these activities as a source of pollution. Yet our research suggests they are releasing tiny fibreglass particles into coastal environments.
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Fibreglass: How this emerging contaminant is polluting our coasts

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By Juan José Alava, Zeinab Zoveidadianpour
| Flipboard
Science 3 hours ago “They don’t have the strength – so they’ve turned into a mass killing machine” discoverwildlife.com - Sophie Ellis • 3h In a clip from the BBC’s Evolution, Chris Packham explains how ants have evolved to become efficient hunters Ants are a superorganism – a group of … Culture 2 hours ago Ancient Roman May Have Been the World's First Collector of Sea Monster Fossils Gizmodo - Gayoung Lee • 2h Whether this person was an early paleontologist or a fanatic of Greek myths,...
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Alava and Issifu: To protect oceans, treaty must end virgin plastic production

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By Juan José Alava, Ibrahim Issifu
| North Bay Nugget Verified
Advertisement 1 It’s not enough to better manage waste plastic or rely on recycling. We must drastically cut plastic production. •   • Article content Plastic pollution is one of the greatest environmental problems facing our planet today. It’s estimated that by 2040, 20,000 million metric tons of plastic will be generated, double that produced in 2020. Advertisement 2 Article content We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
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