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Plastic in the Ocean: Too Late To Fix?

Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss Boyan Slat, debris, garbage, gyre, ocean, Pacific, patch, plastic, The Ocean Cleanup

Dutch inventor Boyan Slat hopes his marine plastic collector will help solve the growing problem of too much plastic in the ocean.

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Green Apparel: Not Just A Color Choice

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer apparel, clothing, Common Threads, cotton, crop, fashion, fertilizer, green apparel, inputs, land, Noso, outerwear, pants, Patagonia, patch, patches, pesticides, polyester, Press, recycle, reuse, Scalable, Scalable Press, second use, shirt, shirts, style, Worn Wear, WornWear

Apparel manufacturers such as Patagonia, Scalable Press and Noso are finding new ways to shave their carbon pollution and otherwise green their practices to have less of an environmental impact moving forward.

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Is Polyester Fleece Trashing Our Oceans?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Algalita, Charles Moore, fleece, garbage, gyre, marine ecosystems, microfiber, microplastic, nylon, oceans, Patagonia, patch, plastic, polyester, recycling, Rozalia Project, waste

Polyester fleece clothing sure is cozy and comfy, but it just may be trashing our oceans by shedding microfibers in our washing machines that are too small for wastewater treatment facilities to filter out.