Recycling Technologies

Recycling Technologies

Water Treatment

Innovative Solutions to Marine Pollution

Trash into Sports

Arte Vivo

According to studies conducted by the Pew Charitable Trusts, it is estimated that nearly 13 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean each year, threatening marine life and polluting coastal areas.

Trash To Art

Atomic Habits

What Can I Do Today?

Marine Life

MPS Trash Recycling

What can I do today?

6 Thing you can easily do to take action

1. Reduce Your Use of Single-Use Plastics 2. Recycle Properly 3. Participate In (or Organize) a Beach or River Cleanup 4. Avoid Products Containing Microbeads 5. Spread the Word 6. Support Organizations Addressing Plastic Pollution

Maritime Procurement Services

Maritime Procurement Services (MPS) is a company committed to sustainability. Its greatest goal is to protect the planet for tomorrow's generations. This company operates in 13 Mexican ports and 9 of the 15 biggest ports in the world. MPS creates and implements groundbreaking solutions that prioritize sustainability and a circular economy, guided by the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Water Treatment

Step by Step

- Coagulation: Treatment plant staff add chemicals to the water that help bind together dirt and other small particles. - Flocculation: Flocculation is the gentle mixing of the water to form larger, heavier particles called flocs. - Sedimentation: Separates solids from the water. Flocs are heavier than water, so they settle to the bottom of the water during this step. - Filtration is the next step. Once the flocs have settled to the bottom of the water, the clear water on top goes through several filters.

Other ways of water treatment

Trash To Art

Menchaca Studio

Cesar Menchaca is a Mexican artist who partnered with MPS to make trash into art. He has an exposition called “El Murmullo de los Oceanos”, and more recently he made an exposition about the day of the death. MPS provided Menchaca with a certain amount of trash last year. He collected it and made figures of Marine live with it. This trash-to-art approach to recycling makes it easy and fun for young people. You clean beaches and make your pieces of art.

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Arte Vivo

Art with purpose

MPS is collaborating with Arte Vivo to transform and expand audiences by exhibiting the work of emerging and established artists in outdoor events, galleries, digital spaces, and innovative and unexpected venues. Art is a strong way to connect with people. MPS promotes regional animal conservation by having paintings of these animals in their trucks with a QR code that connects them to an environmental organization and helps with their conservation.

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Marine Pollution

Marine pollution is a combination of chemicals and trash, mostly from land sources, and is washed or blown into the ocean. This pollution can affect in many ways the marine life putting at risk many species. It not only affects the living animals, but it also affects the ones yet to be born, like turtles. When the turtle lays down its eggs, temperature is a key element for the sex of the baby. Trash on the shores makes the temperature warmer. Therefore, many males are being born, and that is putting the species at risk.

Video of the dangers of plastic

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Atomic Habits

Only focus on what you can control

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you want to become, if you master the little actions, it is like casting votes for the type of person you want to become. Picking up one bottle of water from the ocean has no impact, but it casts a vote for being a person with sustainable values. The goal is not to pick up trash every day the goal is to become a person who is aware of the social impacts of trash. Atomic Habits is a book written by James Clean. It provides key elements and cheat sheets on how to form new habits and get rid of bad ones. Forming good habits is key to a sustainable world

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Animals that live in cold waters

Habits to be more sea-sustainable

Sports Courts made of ocean plastic

MPS, in collaboration with Tide Ocean, has innovated sports in Mexico by constructing running tracks and courts for basketball, volleyball, and now pickleball using ocean plastic. This process is certified by the World Association of Tennis, Basketball, and Athletics to protect joints by providing greater cushioning. This project offers a circular plastic solution for cruiselines

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Sea Sustain

SeaSustain is an AI-powered traceability platform that revolutionizes sustainable waste management in the maritime industry, promoting decarbonization through the implementation of circular economy models.

Habits to be more sea-sustainable

• Minimize plastic use: Opt for products without microbeads, carry reusable bags, and recycle diligently.
• Lower your carbon footprint: Choose energy-efficient lighting, adjust your thermostat wisely, and opt for eco-friendly transportation like biking or public transit.
• Reduce vehicle pollution: Use fuel-efficient vehicles

By following these tips, we can significantly reduce annual pollution and help prevent ocean warming, thus protecting many cold-water marine species.

Team

• Ignacio Luis Melo
• Nate Kalat
• Anthony Cappoto

More data

- According to the United Nations, at least 800 species worldwide are affected by marine debris, and as much as 80 percent of that litter is plastic. - Fish, seabirds, sea turtles, and marine mammals can become entangled in or ingest plastic debris, causing suffocation, starvation, and drowning. Humans are not immune to this threat: While plastics are estimated to take up to hundreds of years to fully decompose, some of them break down much quicker into tiny particles, which in turn end up in the seafood we eat.

Animals that live in cold waters

• Killer Whales
• Seals
• Some sharks
• Salmon
• Cod
• Jellyfish
• Walrus

Reverse Osmosis

Reverse Osmosis is when water is forced through semi-permeable membranes under high pressure, allowing water molecules to pass through while leaving salt and other impurities behind.

To learn more about reverse osmosis: https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/overview-drinking-water-treatment-technologies#RO