To make it easier for businesses to reduce the amount of plastic packaging they use, Pack Swap Penzance provides a packaging hub for all local businesses, where they can drop off plastic that has been delivered by suppliers. It can then be re-used again by other businesses, an idea that came about through Plastic Free Penzance Business Champions, who had started informally swapping things like bubble wrap, packaging peanuts and jiffy bags between them to save money and waste. ... See more

♻️ Pack Swap PZ is here! ♻️

Check out our new initiative for businesses in Penzance to help them save resources, reduce plastic waste and save money! 👏👏 Win- Win 👏👏

Pack Swap Penzance is based at Wharfside Shopping Centre every Tuesday and Thursday. Get all the details on the link here 👉👉👉
http://www.plasticfreepz.co.uk/news/business-pack-swap-scheme-launches-2/ ... See more

Nine months ago #Malaysia clamped down on sand exports to #Singapore in a bid to stop illegal sand mining. Has this action had any effect on the island's expansion plans?
http://ow.ly/8jif50v2zXG #sandstories #construction #LandReclamation ... See more

Important Butterfly survey, [all species] especially useful for coastal conservation efforts.

High numbers have reached UK in past six weeks and many of their offspring will emerge during Big Butterfly Count

“Surely the world must wake up to this technology,” says Professor Joe Howe of the University of Chester. “It will make waste plastic valuable with it being able to power the world’s towns and cities, and most importantly it can help clean up our oceans of waste plastic now.”

However, similar plans have raised concern among environmentalists in the past. Although hydrogen is not a greenhouse gas, the process of creating it from plastic releases potent greenhouse gases including methane.

The Cheshire project plans to trap the gases and pipe them into a power plant to generate electricity. This would not be any more polluting than the UK’s existing gas-fired power plants, and would avoid the need to extract more gas from the ground.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/20/how-plastic-waste-could-heat-homes ... See more

Breakthrough means less pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49065575

SOS Méditerranée restarts work off Libya with a new vessel, after the last one was forced to stop.

One of the biggest obstacles turtles face today is climate change. Even in my short time here in Nicaragua, we have witnessed beach erosion endangering the hatchery. The biggest moment for me on this campaign was saving the hatchery, which is currently holding nests of incubating sea turtle eggs. We lifted rocks and filled sandbags for hours to protect the hatchery from flooding and erosion. It has been so rewarding to be part of the team that helped save the nests from being lost.

Back home, I am actively involved as a diver in the SSUK Ghostnet campaign that locates and lifts ghost-nets off wrecks which indiscriminately carries on killing marine life and also arrange beach cleans under the Marine Debris Campaign. ... See more

Meet the Crew:
Lula
England

I joined Sea Shepherd around two and a half years ago, with its passionate volunteers and so many campaigns to protect marine species and habitats I just simply knew it was where I wanted to be. The balance of our marine ecosystems is under threat with climate change, plastic pollution, overexploitation, illegal practices, and habitat loss.

Operation Jairo is my third campaign with Sea Shepherd. After watching the documentary, “Why Just One” which highlights why only one in one thousand sea turtles survive to maturity, I was moved to join this campaign.

One of the biggest obstacles turtles face today is climate change. Even in my short time here in Nicaragua, we have witnessed beach erosion endangering the hatchery. The biggest moment for me on this campaign was saving the hatchery, which is currently holding nests of incubating sea turtle eggs. We lifted rocks and filled sandbags for hours to protect the hatchery from flooding and erosion. It has been so rewarding to be part of the team that helped save the nests from being lost.

Back home, I am actively involved as a diver in the SSUK Ghostnet campaign that locates and lifts ghost-nets off wrecks which indiscriminately carries on killing marine life and also arrange beach cleans under the Marine Debris Campaign.

In February of this year, I became a Cove Guardian monitoring the slaughtering of dolphins in Taiji. Currently, Sea Shepherd is banned from entering Japan, so it was an honor to represent the dolphins and the organization on this important mission.

Each and every person can do something to make a change no matter how small, and I urge you to donate, get involved, be the change.

🐢❤️🐢❤️

#volunteer #sscs #opjairo ... See more

📅 The countdown to our Plastic Ocean Film Night at Penlee Park Open Air Theatre starts here 📅

Film One: A Plastic Wave, introduced by presenter Dave Muir. 👀Watch the trailer below 👀 and get tickets here 👉👉www.facebook.com/events/370181110294094/ ... See more

With thanks to our friends on Arran

Video highlights from Howard & Gus's dive today in the MPA off Whiting bay. Lot of plankton in the water so the visability was reduced to only about 5m, but plenty species to see on the seabed at around 20m depth ... See more

Fewer snarly nets to hurt the marine creatures - thanks folks.

A great start to the weekend with Atlantic Scuba and their skipper Mark. A couple of dives off Falmouth Bay and the divers worked hard removing a large piece of trawl net from a wreck and collected a piece of gill net.
Good team work! 😊
Thanks to support from World Animal Protection UK #globalghostgearinitiative Ocean Recovery Project Odyssey Innovation Ltd #ghostgear #lostfishingnet ... See more

New video evidence of illegal scallop dredging damaging a marine protected area in the Firth of Lorn underlined “chronic gaps in enforcement”, say campaigners.