Cleanup Day Comes to Philippine Capital's Polluted Bay
of coastline in the archipelago of more than 7,600 islands.But it is the world's top polluter when it comes to releasing plastic waste into the ocean, accounting for roughly a third the total, according to an April 2022 report by the University of Oxford's Our World in Data, a scientific online publication."We need to do these (cleanup drives) for our environment and to discourage people from throwing trash on the seaside," Janet Panganiban, a 36-year-old volunteer, told Reuters.Critics say laws regulating solid waste are inadequate and poorly enforced, leaving governments and communities
ADCI/IOGP/IMCA Diving Terms Published
Group (DIWG),” explains Richard Benzie. “The aim was to create harmonised world-wide guidance for terminology used in the offshore diving industry. This document is a live document, and the JIP encourages input through the IMCA feedback button ([email protected]) in the online publication. Eleven pages of the 22-page document are devoted to an alphabetical glossary of nearly 200 terms starting with ‘A foot of seawater (fsw)’ and ending at ‘Working pressure’, with definitions for each, and the source alongside. This is followed by a 256-strong