Plastic pollution. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care
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The U.S Navy is investigating how more than three dozen clear plastic-coated disks of compressed trash, apparently from one or more naval vessels, washed up on northern Outer Banks beaches in recent weeks.
The disks are consistent with those made on ships to compress plastic waste for easy storage, said Ted Brown, a spokesman for the Navy’s Fleet Forces Command. Ships are not supposed to dump plastic into the ocean…
Read Full Article; Virginian Pilot (05-16-2017)
Navy Unsure Why Trashy Disks Washed Up; Coastal Review Online (05-17-2017)
Princess Cruises Hit With Largest-Ever Criminal Penalty For ‘Deliberate Pollution’; NPR (12-01-2016)
The California-based cruise operator, Princess Cruise Lines, will pay a $40 million fine for “deliberate pollution of the seas and intentional acts to cover it up,” according to the Department of Justice, which calls it “the largest-ever criminal penalty involving deliberate vessel pollution.”..
UN Declares War on Ocean Plastic, UNEP (02-23-2017)
The Arctic is a ‘dead end’ for ocean plastic; MNN (04-24-2017)
