Louise Edge, a senior oceans campaigner at Greenpeace UK, said: "When it comes to dealing with microbeads, companies are all over the shop," said Louise Edge, senior oceans campaigner at Greenpeace UK. "The UK government has already said it agrees that a ban on microbeads is the right way forward," she said.
Greenpeace's senior oceans campaigner Louise Edge pointed to a desperate need to change recycling and consumption systems on a much wider scale. .
"This is incredible news and a significant blow to the future of the outdated and unnecessary slaughter of whales for profit," Greenpeace Senior Oceans Campaigner Phil Kline said in a statement Thursday afternoon.
"Rather than reducing the number of single-use plastic bottles it produces, Coke is investing in even more throwaway plastic," Louise Edge, senior oceans campaigner at Greenpeace UK, said in a statement.
Louise Edge, senior oceans campaigner at Greenpeace, told HuffPost, "What we really need are system changes … An enzyme alone can't clean up the complex and widespread legacy of plastic pollution that we have already created".
Dr John Turner, a senior lecturer in ocean sciences at Bangor University, said a delicate balance would have to be struck.
Gary F. Loverich, chairman and senior engineer of Ocean Spar, says the drop net -- which his company made for $18,000 -- is a reasonable fit with aquaculture, particularly for countries short of cash.
Not surprisingly, many Americans find the EU infuriating.The lesson of George BushYet on both sides of the ocean senior figures hope and some even predict that in the second half of his term Mr Obama will follow the example of George Bush who, weakened by the Iraq war, sought closer co-operation with Europe.
"The Arctic Ocean once again proved to be the challenging and unpredictable environment we know it to be," said Brad Ack, the senior vice president for oceans at the World Wildlife Fund.
It also can cause overfishing and makes the business needlessly unpredictable, according to Amanda Leland, senior vice president for oceans at the Environmental Defense Fund.
