Educational References

BBC: Pollution threatens the future of killer whales

BBC: Seven charts that explain the plastic pollution problem

CNN: Plastic-eating bacteria could be small step toward tackling world’s pollution crisis

Environmental Science and Technology: Export of Plastic Debris by Rivers into the Sea

Forbes: How Satellites And Machine Learning Are Being Used To Detect Plastic In The Ocean

Government of Canada: Economic Study of the CANADIAN PLASTIC INDUSTRY, MARKETS AND WASTE

ITUNews: 5 ways technologies are helping beat plastic pollution

JUSTIN TRUDEAU, PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA: Canada to ban harmful single-use plastics and hold companies responsible for plastic waste

Learning Hub: Qualitative vs Quantitative Data – What’s the Difference?

Nature: Sea change for plastic pollution

Plastic Pollution by Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser

Reuters: Slave to sachets: How poverty worsens the plastics crisis in the Philippines

Science: Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

Science Advances: Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

UN: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

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“As part of Adobe’s effort to design Firefly to be commercially safe, we’re training our initial commercial Firefly model on licensed content, such as Adobe Stock, and public domain content where copyright has expired. Additionally, as a founding collaborator of the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), Adobe is setting the industry standard for responsible generative AI. The CAI is a community of media and tech companies, NGOs, academics, and others working to promote the adoption of an open industry standard for content authenticity and provenance.

This is in conjunction with the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), which has developed an open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to understand the origin of different types of media, including the ability to add a Content Credential that allows creators to indicate that generative AI was used. Find out more about content credentials.

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