10. There will be more plastic in our oceans than fish by 2050. The amount of plastic ending up in the ocean every year could triple in the next 20 years meaning in less than 30 years there would be more plastic in the sea than fish. We can stop that happening though by using less...
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...
Dame Ellen Mac Arthur has seen more of the world's oceans than almost anyone else.Now she is warning that there will be more waste plastic in the sea than fish by 2050 , unless the industry cleans up its act."All this plastic in the ocean puts sea animals at risk.Animals can becom...
Here are some interesting facts about plastic bags that you probably didn’t know: 160,000 plastic bags are used globally every second! 5 trillion plastic bags are produced yearly. Side by side, they can encircle the world 7 times.
4. It holds about 70% of the world’s fresh water. Antarctica holds about 70% of the world’s fresh water in the form of ice. If all the ice were to melt, it would significantly contribute to a rise in global sea levels. Plastic in the sea is bad! Find out more with Marina Ven...
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.
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 ...
Inhaling and ingesting tiny bits of plastic are giving bees memory issues—and can even kill them. Jake Rossen The Dark History Behind the Phrase ‘Canary in the Coal Mine’ Any early warning sign can be a canary in a coal mine. But the original meaning was more specific. Ellen Gutoskey...
In our daily life,so many people throw litter into the sea.It ends 在我们的日常生活中,如此多的人把垃圾扔进海洋里。 throw litter into the sea.It ends up in the Pacific Oceean.There is a big island of litter.There are plastic 它在太平洋结束。 有一个大的垃圾岛。 Litter Island in thr...
Much of the planet is swimming in discarded plastic, which is harming animal and possibly human health. Can it be cleaned up?