#plastic capture

[aquitainequeen]

A project to clean up the Great Pacific garbage patch reached a milestone, the global tiger population stabilised, and Botswana was hailed for its HIV success, plus more positive news

The great garbage patch cleanup hit a milestone It has become emblematic of our throwaway society, a grim testament to the pitfalls of single-use plastic. But this week, efforts to clean up the Great Pacific garbage patch reached a milestone: 100,000kg of plastic removed so far.

Admittedly, it’s small fry. Strewn across an area twice the size of Texas, the floating mass of rubbish is 1,000 times larger than what has been landed so far. But the Dutch nonprofit behind the project, The Ocean Cleanup, said it was preparing to scale up.

“We are ready to move on to our new and expanded system, which is expected to capture plastic at a rate potentially 10 times higher,” said Boyan Slat, its CEO.

The Ocean Cleanup uses computer modelling to predict where large concentrations of rubbish will accumulate, and skims it from the sea using giant booms. The nonprofit deploys similar technology at river mouths to stop plastic entering oceans in the first place.

Image: The Ocean Cleanup

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#Environment #Health #Politics #Society #positive news #positive.news #Great Pacific garbage patch #the ocean cleanup #plastic capture #plastic pollution #cornwall #botswana #unaids #fighting HIV #tiger #tigers #cheetah #slovenia #same-sex marriage #toyota #cargo bikes #Seagreen wind farm #scotland #wind power #body positivity #scallops #good news

[inky-toons]

LET ME FREE FROM DRAWING GORILLAZ ART PLEASE PLEA

The last one is my best friend and noodle 🗣️💕

#I am the. one and only Phase One art fan #It has the yummiest style and captures the 2000’s feel of cartoon #MWAH #I’m also a massive fan of phase six art #Song Machine solos with the story and art.. #and don’t talk about Plastic beach .. #Shakes #Gorillaz #art #My art #I don’t feel like tagging these I just wanna pop off per usual #bri rambles

[stuartsspot]

🎶 he is an outer heart, and the space has been broken 🎶

#i hope i was able to capture the emotion of this song #its so heartwretching #and imaging if 2D could hear murdoc from his bunker #but couldnt do anything to help him or be there for hi #ouchie #broken gorillaz #plastic beach #phase 3 #2d gorillaz #murdoc niccals #gorillaz #2doc #i made this as 2doc but interpret as you will #mixed medium #Spotify #stuartsspots art #my art

[hiraeth-found]

Something shows itself when there is damage, a cut, something to which normal, creative plasticity gives neither access nor body: the deserting of subjectivity, the distancing of the individual who becomes a stranger to herself, who no longer recognizes anyone, who no longer recognizes herself, who no longer remembers herself. These types of beings impose a new form in their old form, without mediation or transition or glue or accountability, today versus yesterday, in state of emergency, without foundation, bareback, sockless. The change may equally well emerge from apparently anodyne events, which ultimately prove to be veritable traumas inflecting the course of a life, producing the metamorphosis of someone about whom one says: I would have never guessed they would “end up like this”. A vital hitch, a threatening detour that opens up another pathway, one that is unexpected, unpredictable, dark.

Ontology of the Accident, Catherine Malabou

#Catherine Malabou #ontology #philosophy #french philosophy #phenomenology #destructive plasticity #quotes #event and signifiers #honestly it has taken me at least 7 years to find a book that describes my near death accident and what happened in 2016 #when you come back wrong and can’t make your way back nor do you want to #I think I successfully faked it for the most part until 2016 but that year that broke me #personal thesis #this quote captures the foundation of my work and the ambitious turn I want to take with it

[localvoidcat]

fun fact that alt thatcher thing was me trying to figure out his design and then going well wait a second! i'll just pull up a ref! and immediately forgetting everything else i was doing

#anyways. design notes in the tags #i already draw thatcher in a lanky/exaggerated way in terms of proportions and stuff cause i think thats fun #SO i want alt thatcher to feel like even more of that. horribly stretched out in ways he shouldn't be #also! the most noticeable parts of his canon design are his eyes and the general . i dont know the word #his skin doesn't look like skin. it's shiny and almost looks like plastic or some kind of textured clay #his mouth doesnt seem to have teeth it seems to just be a void. i could do something with him controlling the amount of teeth #that would be very fun #i just want him to come off as offputting. he doesnt really melt so much as it's hard for him to stay static for too long #wearing his disguise seems difficult as shown in that one segment with the fake call #it's like his skin is slipping and he doesn't know how to make human expressions. his eyes dart around and his face falls and picks up #very interesting stuff! so i want to capture that #anywho! #tmc

[wewantclimateactionnow]

"As the concentration of carbon (and other greenhouse gases) in the atmosphere continues to rise, some experts believe that carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) may become necessary at some point to remove some of the carbon we’ve already pumped into the atmosphere.

That, however, only becomes practical if the technology reaches a point where it can remove huge volumes of the stuff and at a reasonable cost – neither of which is currently the case. But that does not stop the fossil fuel companies from betting on CCS, not necessarily because they are concerned about a changing climate but because it gives them an excuse to carry on with their profitable business-as-usual plans.

The skeptics, however, say CCS must be viewed with extreme skepticism and only as a last resort."

#carbon capture #jail climate criminals #we want climate action now #climate change #cambio climático #climate crisis #prepare for climate change #greenwashing #big oil #fossil fuel industry #plastic #climate washing #floods #climate activism #calentamiento global #medio ambiente #IPPC #climate hope #sea level rise #late stage capitalism #victims of capitalism #klimakatastrophe #klimawandel #changement climatique #qihou bianhua #izmeneniye klimata #cambiamento climatico #気候変動 #जलवायु परिवर्तन #jalavaayu parivartan

[missattau]

if u haven’t watched tron legacy yet (which you should really watch rn)…… here’s the context

#my art #eddsworld #eddsworld tron au #tron au #t.o.r. #ew edd #ew tord #eddsworld au #eddsworld au comic #ew comic #comic #tron legacy au #i worked my BACK off for this #and i still don’t think i captured the true emotion of the scene right #but it’s good enough #90% emotion captured lol #also there is no family drama in my au #it’s only friends #tors eye is there it’s just covered by orange plastic lol #it’s a homage to red leader #which tor is basically red leader #bro this is starting to sound like clone theory #anyways #feel free to ask questions abt the au!!! #i need some motivation too

[aquitainequeen]

Cambridge University researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes – or even directly from the air – and transformed into clean, sustainable fuels using just the energy from the sun. They developed a solar-powered reactor that uses captured CO2 and plastic waste (which acts as a catalyst) and converts it into sustainable fuels and other valuable chemical products. Over several years of testing, CO2 was converted into syngas, a key building block for sustainable liquid fuels, and plastic bottles were converted into glycolic acid, which is widely used in the cosmetics industry. Unlike earlier tests of their solar fuels technology, however, the team took CO2 from real-world sources—such as industrial exhaust or the air itself. They were able to capture and concentrate the CO2 and convert it into sustainable fuel. The researchers appreciate the advances in carbon capture and storage, where CO2 is captured and then pumped and stored underground. But instead, they believe the smart move is ‘carbon capture and utilization’—making something useful from CO2 instead of burying it underground. Something like photosynthesis—the inspiration behind the work done by Professor Erwin Reisner and his team in the Department of Chemistry and at the Cambridge Circular Plastics Centre where they develop net-zero carbon fuels.

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#oh brave new world #carbon dioxide #carbon capture #Cambridge Circular Plastics Centre #good news #good news network

[waitafrikk]

The unique pain of putting your retainers in after not having worn them for a week or so

#it hurts so much #my teef are in agony #the expensive plastic has captured them and is preventing them from being free #retainers

[carlthethoughtfulsoul]

They look like little stars that were brought down to earth.

#skeleton #plastic skeleton #halloween #halloween decorations #bamboo #bamboo forest #lights #lantern festival #stars #down to earth #captured stars #i hope they send them back when they are done

[sheltiechicago]

aarHUS i by m_laRs_k Via Flickr: .. architeXture in Denmarks second largest city .. enjoy & happy Friday :)

#Denmark #aarhus #architeXture #architecture #Architektur #abstract #abstraXion #NIKON #Nikkor #Z 6 #Z 40mm f/2 #40mm #plastic fantastic #nifty forty #2 #ii #Capture One 20 #Chrome #diagonals #shape #lines #design #form #north #scandinavia #skandinavien #city scape #city walk #city view #perspective

[yourbleedingh3art]

LITERWLLY some of the most beautiful words ever strung together from one loved one to another and I will always think so and i knows it’s so stuoid snd silly once you learn the origin of these words but I can ignore them every time because this is so How Love Feels I LOVE YOU ALIVE GIRL NOT DEAD ALIVE. And the sad thing is how hard everybody tore into this and how much of a meme it became and that’s fine actually but i can’t lie I’ve been deeply impacted by these words since the first time I read them … whenever I feel the urge to write love poems this Thrums in my mind. Everyone else is dead but you…. Or, you’re so alive, you make them seem that way,to me.

#blog post #uploads #The growing intensity in emphasis like you’re standing by their bedside whispering #whisper shouting the words right into their ears so they explode in their chest #when you’re a writer and you love someone words are never enough #you just can’t get the perfect sentence #one that captures all you feel #until sometimes you find that sentence snd you have to repeat it over and over until it burrows in the heart of the one you love #I’ll b ur plastic toy Jesus and Mary chain vibes rn

[mocacheezy]

What is better than one weird fish?🐟

TWO weird fishes🐟🐟

#Moca screeches #THE PICTURE DOES NOT CAPTURE MY GLEE WHEN I GOT THE PACKAGE I WAS SQUEALING WITH GLEE #I wasn't aware I am capable of producing these kinds of noises and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I LOVE THIS WEORD FUCKING FISH #Never thought transforming pieces of plastic would bring me as much joy as they do BUT HERE I AM AT 22 YEARS OLD AND HAPPY #Seriously I can't stop grinning LOOK AT HOW STUPID THIS IS I LOVE THE DUMBNESS OF HIS ALT

[calico-heart]

I know unicorns in modern media are kind of relegated to cutsie, MLP, rainbow plastic toys, or shitting rainbows, 'lets go to candy mountain' but man. I WISH more fantasy media would put them in unironically. There is so much symbolic and narrative potential in a creature that is, depending on your mythology:

A guardian of wild spaces, the embodiment of nature untouched by mankind's industry and greed. Fewer and farther between.

The ideal of "Purity" made manifest, elusive and powerful and hunted for fruitlessly by many a person. To kill. To actually kill. Living symbol of the oh-so-coveted Purity, not treated as a sacred thing to protect, or even predated for food to survive off, but a trophy for knights and lords to boast about.

So absolutely fierce and deadly that no one smart dared to fight it fairly. A gentle maiden had to betray it into resting in her lap so that a man could spear it while its guard was down.

Able to heal any wound no matter how severe - it promised miracles, if you could find one.

A creature who's magic vanished if it was captured or killed. In trying to take control of it, you destroyed it. Some things can only be given by free will, and no amount of personal desire or brute force can change that.

#unicorn #wyn gabs #mythology #fantasy

[palipunk]

It was never about hamas. If israel manages somehow to kill every member of hamas, what then? Do you think Palestinians are just going to forgive and forget everything Israel has done?

Babies who are the only surviving members of their families? Fathers carrying the remains of their children in plastic bags? Palestinians who witnessed people blown to bits right in front of them? Had Israeli forces shoot at them as they tried to escape the north? Palestinians in the West Bank who have been captured and tortured on camera? Palestinians in 48 who have been arrested just for sympathizing with their kin in Gaza? Palestinian school girls being assaulted by the IOF? Mothers who only have the blood of their children on their hands as their only remaining piece of them? The constant dehumanization that followed our every move - how while Palestinians suffered, politicians called us “monsters”, “human animals”, “children of darkness”, “savages”, and “cockroaches”?

It’s been 75 years since my family was forced from their villages by Zionist militias, they have never forgotten what they did to their neighbors and how they are still denied their right of return. None of us will.

Now, IOF forces in Gaza raise the Israeli flag over the beaches and take selfies with fleeing Palestinians in the background, cheer and celebrate a “return to their settlements in gaza” and sing about leveling the land and fantasize building shopping malls on Palestinian mass graves - it was never about hamas.

#palestine #free palestine #‘but h@m@s-’ you’re a dumbass

[gaycityrollers]

I wish I had a zillion dollars to invest in digital art equipment etc so I would stop being so feral over traditional art supplies

#the rush i get from using them though really cant be captured by a plastic stylus grossly scratching on a tablet </3