Plastics are the most common man-made objects sighted at sea, with 18,000 pieces of plastic litter floating on every square kilometre of the world’s oceans! Six million tonnes of debris enters the world’s oceans every year, […]
Clean Ups
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At least 8 million tons of plastic enter the oceans each year. That’s similar to emptying a garbage truck of plastic into an ocean every minute. We went on our weekly Beach Cleanup to help reduce […]
Shoppers worldwide are using approximately 500 billion single-use plastic bags per year. This translates to about a million bags every minute across the globe, or 150 bags a year for every person on earth. And the […]
With more than 150 million tonnes of plastic estimated to be in the world’s oceans right now, we here at RippleZoo have recently started our weekly Beach Clean Up campaign. This week our friend Finola, joined […]
Two RippleZoo members, Kamila and James, visited Sandymount beach in Dublin, in order to begin our new initiative: a beach clean up! Did you know that about 8 million tonnes of plastic enters the sea every […]