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Admiral Netting

Did you know: Nylon is plastic and it does not decompose. That means fishing nets lost in the ocean, called ghost nets, continue to catch fish for many years. Because of this, hundreds of millions of marine animals are killed or injured every year due to the fishing net pollution.
Billy Mac

Did you know: Too much growth hormone can cause gigantism in children, where their bones and their body grow too much. In adults, it can cause acromegaly, which makes the hands, feet and face larger than normal.
Bottlenose

Did you know: Often times dolphins hunting schools of fish will become trapped when following that school of fish into a net. The fishing industry’s bycatch of unintentionally caught dolphins adds up to a staggering 4.1 million dolphins from 1950 to 2018.
Compost Corps - Bugsy

Did you know: Many of the micronutrients in compost have a pesticide-like effect on garden pests. In turn, composting reduces our dependence on harmful chemical pesticides.
Compost Corps - Fireball

Did you know: Many people that don’t compost incinerate their yard waste. Burning yard waste can release the harmful chemicals found in fertilizers, weed killers and bug sprays into the air. Many of the chemicals can lead to health problems such as asthma.
Compost Corps - Kata

Did you know: One of the biggest contributors of greenhouse gases, specifically methane, is our landfills. If we composted the organic portion of our waste, we could drastically reduce those emissions.
Compost Corps - Lt. Green

Did you know: Composting increases the quality of soil by increasing the amount of organic materials and micronutrients. Farms and gardens will thrive with the addition of compost.
Compost Corps - Recon

Did you know: In many cases soil is too acidic for basic plants to grow properly. Adding compost to soil helps to regulate the acid and alkaline levels in your soil.
Compost Corps - Spora

Did you know: Compost helps to reduce erosion by aiding the soils ability to hold water. Erosion leads to nutrient lacking soil and polluted water sources.
Compost Corps - Worms

Did you know: Composting attracts many kinds of worms, bacteria's, birds, fungi and insects that are beneficial to the crop growing process.
Dr. Jackie

Did you know: American hospitals create more than 5.9 million tons of medical waste each year.
Exabyte

Did you know: E-waste represents 2% of America’s trash in landfills, but it equals 70% of overall toxic waste. 20 to 50 million metric tons of e-waste are disposed worldwide each year. Cell phones and other electronic items contain high amounts of precious metals like gold and silver.
Fukushima Dynamo

Did you know: The products of nuclear fission have long half lives, which means that they will continue to be radioactive and therefore hazardous for many thousands of years.
Green Anvil

Did you know: Almost 69% of all steel is recycled in North America each year. More than paper, aluminum, plastic & glass combined. North America’s average steel recycling rate has been in excess of 60% since 1970. More than 95% of water used for making steel is recycled.
Kujira

Did you know: Even micro-plastics have been found in whales and their prey. This micro-pollution can break down from sunlight and other environmental factors into its invisible toxic chemical compounds.
Loggerhead

Did you know: New research suggests that a disease now killing many sea turtles (fibropapillomas) may be linked to pollution in the oceans and in nearshore waters. When pollution contaminates and kills aquatic plant and animal life, it also destroys feeding habitats for sea turtles.
Major Compost

Did you know: Yard and food scraps make up 25-50% of what we throw away. The EPA estimates that ¼ of waste in our landfills could have been composted. Composting not only removes content from our landfills but utilizes that content.
Gyra

Did you know: 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our ocean daily. 25 trillion macro & 51 trillion micro-plastics litter our oceans.
The Hemptress

Did you know: Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a variety of the Cannabis Sativa plant species that is grown specifically for industrial use. It can be used to make a wide range of products. Along with bamboo, hemp is one of the fastest growing plants on Earth.
Polymera

Did you know: Many balloons that are not properly disposed of end up in the ocean and along shores, becoming marine debris. Balloons can be mistaken for food, and if eaten and ingested, balloons and other marine debris can lead to loss of nutrition, internal injury, starvation and death.
Steven Seagull

Did you know: Given current trends, it is estimated that 99% of seabirds will have ingested plastic waste by 2050. Birds can mistake plastic floating on the water for food, which can cause injury or death. The effects of toxic chemicals absorbed by the body are less clear.
Sludge

Did you know: More than 80% of the world’s wastewater flows back into the environment without being treated or reused, based on the United Nations. In some least-developed countries, the figure tops 95%. In the U.S., waste treatment facilities process 34 billion gallons of waste per day.
Solar Flare

Did you know: A solar flare is a sudden flash of increased brightness on the Sun, usually observed near its surface and in close proximity to a sunspot group. Powerful flares are often, but not always, accompanied by a coronal mass ejection.
The Ultimate Baler

Did you know: Since cardboard comes in a wide range of shapes and sizes, it can be time-consuming to break down the cardboard and stack it up into bales for recycling. A cardboard baler machine compacts cardboard so it can be tied into neat bales.
Vitrea

Did you know: Radiation can damage living tissue by changing cell structure and damaging DNA. The amount of damage depends upon the type of radiation, its energy and the total amount of radiation absorbed. Also, some cells are more sensitive to radiation.
Vortex Man

Did you know: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a huge patch of ocean that contains a high concentration of plastic debris. The patch covers an estimated surface area of 1.6 million square kilometers. That’s twice the size of Texas, or 3x the size of France.
Vulcanator

Did you know: 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our ocean daily. 25 trillion macro & 51 trillion micro-plastics litter our oceans.