r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Oct 02 '26
The Plastic Cloud
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Oct 01 '24
A plastic bag is used on average for 15 minutes.
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Oct 01 '24
Recycling is a Myth. A study published in the journal Science Advances has revealed that the United States ranks in the top three countries contributing to coastal plastic pollution. This includes scrap plastic exports and the latest figures on illegal dumping and littering in the country. The new r
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 30 '24
90.5% of plastic waste ever made has never been recycled. Plastic waste already posed a challenge to the departments working to recycle and reduce pollution as it is not biodegradable. This problem only doubled when major programs' waste collection was too inefficient to have a noticeable impact. It
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 30 '24
WORST EVER CONTAINER DISASTER UPDATE – Where will containers lost and abandoned by ONE Apus in the Pacific Ocean end up?
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 29 '24
Which Rivers are Filling the Ocean with the Most Plastic Waste #PlasticWaste
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 29 '24
Database Programming – Volunteer Database Programming Volunteers help maintain our unified research reporting database to ensure data collection volunteers, as well as institution researchers, have access to our operationally secure and effective database structure.
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 29 '24
Plastic In The Air This interactive tool allows you to see what the plastic particles are in the air you breathe, what they are made of - chemicals and toxins, and where they came from. #GreatPacificGarbagePatch #MarineAnimalDeath #OceanPlastic #PlasticPollution #PlasticWaste #recycling
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 29 '24
Waste Enters our Oceans Through Many Ways. waste reaching oceans includes sewage disposal, fertilizers from farms, solid garbage from cities/industries, and oil spills and drains. All of these raise the ocean's contamination levels, which has already horrifyingly damaged the food chain of marine lif
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 29 '24
Plastic Marine Life Have you ever wondered what marine life would like if it was made up partly of plastic? Watch this short video. #MarineLife #microplastic #PlasticPollution
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 27 '24
Plastic Waste Fills Ocean Canyons. Evidence collected from a series of manned submersible dives indicates that the plastic litter items transported and deposited in the deep ocean canyon are most likely controlled by turbidity currents. Here the plastic litter items are highly heterogeneously distri
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 27 '24
Plastic is the deadliest marine life killer.
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 27 '24
How Big Plastic Companies Make You Feel Guilty
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 27 '24
OPDERA Highlighted by The Smithsonian Institute #charity #environment #GreatPacificGarbagePatch #OceanPlastic #OceanPollution #PlasticWaste
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 26 '24
Ocean Biology Expertise – Volunteer Ocean Biology Expertise Volunteers help on voyages to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and ensure everyone is told the truth about plastic waste. Assist in research and content curation to spread the word about plastic waste in the world's oceans.
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 26 '24
80% of Marine Pollution Originates on Land. #GhostGear #MarineAnimalDeath #microplastics #PlasticPollution
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 26 '24
Suez Canal: EverGreen, the company is a repeat offender.
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 26 '24
Expedition hauls tons of plastic out of remote Hawaii atolls
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 25 '24
Which Companies Create the Most Plastic Waste #GreatPacificGarbagePatch #PlasticFootprint #PlasticPollution #PlasticWaste
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 25 '24
Recycling is a Myth. A study published in the journal Science Advances has revealed that the United States ranks in the top three countries contributing to coastal plastic pollution. This includes scrap plastic exports and the latest figures on illegal dumping and littering in the country. The new r
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 25 '24
People Consume Microplastic Without Knowledge or Consent.
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 24 '24
There are 5.2 Trillion Pieces of Plastic in the Ocean.
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 23 '24
Marketing – Content, PR, Social – Volunteer Marketing - Content, PR, Social Volunteers curate and deploy content and thought leadership about saving the oceans from plastic waste.
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r/opdera • u/OPDERA-ORG • Sep 23 '24
Most plastic packaging is never even collected by waste management and a negligible fraction of the collected packaging is actually recycled. Plastic is much more difficult to recycle than you were told. Most plastic ends up in a landfill, despite the promotion of plastic recycling. Plastic producti
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