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You should definitely check the work from The Ocean Cleanup! they are a Netherlands based organization working to obtain solutions for the plastic pollution problem. One of their technologies, which I would say it’s like a trash boom but in a larger scale, it can be used in open water, and it has caught micro plastics in previous tests.

With the webinar I learned a lot about NYC waterways, the wildlife present and the work dynamic of some organizations here, but when it comes to environmental problems, plastic pollution is generally the one I’m most interested about. In NYC there’s a lot of consumption, movement and obviously a high level of population, so I shouldn’t be…[Read more]

The videos for me were very interesting. It was a mix of reviewing the basic concepts and ideas we learned in class and previous lectures, and finding out new things that I didn’t know. For example, I always thought that any plate boundary would be hot because of the activity itself characteristic of every boundary. But in the “Plate Tectonics Bas…[Read more]