Anew study has foundthat whales are consuming millions of particles of plastic every day as they filter feed in the oceans. For blue whales – the world’s largest animal – the estimate was about 10 million pieces of plastic per day, which equates to between 230 kg and 4 metric tons of...
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It’s the biggest of the five plastic accumulation zones haunting our oceans, floating between Hawaii and California. Each year up to 2.66 million tons (2.41 million metric tons) of plastic end up in the sea, and over half of that never sinks. This trash slowly travels until eventually join...
About 1 million plastic bags are used every minute. A single plastic bag can take up to 1,000 years to degrade. More than 3.5 million tons of plastic bags, sacks and wraps were discarded in 2008. Only 1 in 200 plastic bags in the UK are recycled (BBC). The U.S. goes ...
Where does plastic in the ocean come from? Facts about marine waste and what we can do about plastic pollution to keep our seas clean.
Much of the planet is swimming in discarded plastic, which is harming animal and possibly human health. Can it be cleaned up?
1 There are about 300 million tons of plastic in the oceans and most are too small to be seen. Some escapes from landfill sites, blows into a river and ends up in the sea, while other sources are left by careless holidaymakers on the beach. Scientists are now even warning plastic waste...
At DC, he's voiced Penguin, The Plastic Man, Silaak/The Anti-Monitor, Mumbo/Magic God, and Mockingbird. Over at Marvel he's voiced Doctor Octopus on a number of shows, the Collector from the animated version of Guardians of the Galaxy, and both Iron Man and Captain America on...
The first question many of us ask is how should we go about cleaning that plastic out of the oceans. However, beyond local shoreline cleanups which are always desirable, it turns out that there is almost no scientific support for open ocean cleanups, on the principle that any meaningful amoun...
At DC, he's voiced Penguin, The Plastic Man, Silaak/The Anti-Monitor, Mumbo/Magic God, and Mockingbird. Over at Marvel he's voiced Doctor Octopus on a number of shows, the Collector from the animated version of Guardians of the Galaxy, and both Iron Man and Captain America on ...