World Earth Day 2024 - Cecilia Paris
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Cecilia Paris discusses Earth Day and highlights initiatives to combat plastic pollution in the oceans.
Hello everyone, my name is Cecilia. Today the world is celebrating Earth Day, a 54-year annual event and the largest environmental movement on our planet.Before sharing some GOOD news in favour of our ecosystem, I must thank the Thinking Watermill Society for inviting the Parioli English School to the podcast.On a positive note, we are 2 students who deeply believe in this project and would like to raise awareness as well as spread the results of some amazing initiatives as follows.Do you know that The ocean cleanup is a non-profit organisation that develops technologies to clear the oceans from plastic pollution?This year’s goal is to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (or GPGP) by optimising the System 03.The GPGP is the biggest accumulation of floating plastic on Earth (triple the area of France). It is located between Hawaii and California and it contains 100.000.000 kilograms of plastic. Cleaning such a vaste area requires ten cleanup systems.Therefore, in 2023, the association tripled the size of their system so as to achieve their goal.The system 03 is long 2.5 kilometres and it is able to clean an area of ocean equivalent to a football field in 5 seconds.Until today…
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