Turning the plastic tide: System 001 and us

This weekend in Alameda, San Francisco, something will happen that could change the course of events for life on earth

Heidi Bischof
Sep 6, 2018 · 6 min read

On September 8 The Ocean Cleanup will launch it’s first cleanup system in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. For the last 18 months I’ve been eagerly awaiting this moment and it is SO exciting to think we are just days away from starting to turn things around for the major global environmental disaster that is ocean plastic pollution. While our future would look…

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Heidi Bischof

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Sustainability educator & activist, founder @ Earth Ethic

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