World Oceans Day 'Oceanic Big Five' Clean-ups

Default Admin User — Fri, 18 May 2012 09:24:00 -0600

Do you spend your time in, on, or under the water? In honor of World Oceans Day, June 8th, you are invited to be part of a global ocean clean-up effort with your fellow water sport enthusiasts: swimmers, divers, sailors, paddlers, and surfers -- the "Oceanic Big Five."

See the flyers below, and please join--wherever you are--to help clean our ocean on June 8th. For registration info, please email us at info@oceanrecov.org with the subject line "Oceanic Big Five."

Doug Woodring and Paul Hilton on Teen Time Radio

Default Admin User — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:53:56 -0600

Good evening Teen Timers – time for in this week’s Around Town report, with me Andrew Dembina. Last Friday, the Ocean Film Festival kicked off simultaneously in San Francisco, USA and here in Hong Kong. With documentaries and feature films – all about the importance of the sea – showing, till March 22nd I spoke to one of its organisers, Doug Woodring and local filmmaker Paul Hilton, whose movie Manta Ray of Hope is being screened.

RTHK TV Ocean Film Fest

Default Admin User — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:46:16 -0600

RTHK TV covers the Hong Kong - San Francisco Ocean Film Festival 2012.

Shrinking Your Plastic Footprint

Default Admin User — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:25:41 -0600

Shoppers in the market for a tube of lipstick may soon be able to narrow their selection by comparing not just color and price, but also how much plastic various manufacturers use. A cosmetics maker from the United Kingdom is the first business to agree to measure its “plastic footprint,” using tools developed by the Plastic Disclosure Project (PDP).

“If you don’t measure something, you can’t manage it,” explains Doug Woodring, founder of the international project that
launched at the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative. As a first step toward plastic reduction, PDP encourages comp…

Business For Environment -- Berlin

Default Admin User — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:10:00 -0600

Why the Ocean is Your Business - The Challenges

and Opportunities of Plastic

UNEP estimates that up to 80% of the plastic in the ocean comes from land. Plastic is lightweight, durable, inexpensive, and easy to mold. As a result, almost all companies and industries use or sell plastic material or products in some way. Plastic is the one man-made product that links us all to the ocean in some way. Does your company treat plastic as a secondary raw material? Do your consumers feel “let down” when throwing you…

RIO+20 Earth Summit - Plasticity Rio

Default Admin User — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 06:47:00 -0600

Join us on June 21st, 2012, for the side event Plasticity Rio (www.plasticityforum.com), at the RIO+20 Earth Summit. Plasticiy Rio is focused on the Future of Plastic, and will showcase the leaders in their respective industries who are deploying new technologies, innovations and solutions related to plastic use. The final benefactor of improved systems, production and recovery is the ocean,and all of our communities in terms of reduced waste issues. A concurrent design competition, ca…

Nestle Easter Eggs' 100% Recyclable Packaging Saves 726 Tons of Plastic Waste

Default Admin User — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:37:00 -0600

Nestle UK & Ireland has converted to 100 percent recyclable packaging on its Easter egg confectioneries by replacing rigid plastic with cardboard. The move is expected to save an estimated 726 tons of plastic waste going to landfill per year, based on a comparison of the weight of plastic used in 2008 to manufacture Nestlé’s Easter egg boxes, the company said.

Tsunami Debris Survey Launched Northwest of Midway

Default Admin User — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:58:50 -0600

The tsunami that followed on the heels of the March 11, 2011, earthquake in Japan produced as much as 25 million tons of debris. Much of this debris was swept into the ocean. Where will it go?

Tsunami Debris Exploration Uncovers New Theories, More Questions

Default Admin User — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:30:00 -0600

As waves of plastic debris from the 11 March 2011 Tsunami in Japan are expected to wash up on Hawaiian shores. The first waves just hit... but the plastic is not from Japan! What's going on?

Pacific Ocean Survey Northwest of Midway Atoll in Expectation of Tsunami Debris from Japan

Default Admin User — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:52:00 -0600

Shortly after the March 11, 2011 tsunami in Japan, a team of scientists and conservationists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (Drs. Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner) and Hilo (Dr. Henry Carson), the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Dr. Luca Centurioni) and the Ocean Recovery Alliance (Mr. Douglas Woodring) created a plan to survey the tsunami debris field and to mark it with satellite-tracked drifting buoys.

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