If half of Spain’s population wears a new surgical mask every day, it would be equivalent to around 705 million masks per month. If 1% of those masks are not properly disposed of during a year, that would mean 84.6…
BY KRISTIN TOUSSAINT3 MINUTE READ Cigarette butts are arguably the most infamous type of litter. By some estimates, 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are incorrectly disposed of each year. Since the Ocean Conservancy carried out its first coastal cleanup effort in 1986, cigarette…
Back from a 2 days drive through Mar de plástico and it is shocking, plastic from destroyed greenhouses and plastictrash is allover and it seems that nobody are willing to do anything about it. At Plastfree Ocean we will try…
Plastic has become a necessity of our everyday lives. Plastic is part of almost everything we surround ourselves with. Unfortunately, plastic has also become a major environmental challenge. Only a small part of plastic waste can be recycled but the majority of…
Finally we are able to travel to Malaga in the beginning of August. we plan to explore the area around Nerja and specially Almeria were spain grow much of europe´s fruits and vegetables in a huges area called “the sea…
‘this article is from Globalcitizen.org – see article here‘ 1. Since the 1950s, around 8.3 billion tons of plastic have been produced worldwide. According to a report from the Guardian, an estimated 8.3 billion tons of plastic have been produced since…
