While data science can be of great help with analyzing the current impact of plastic waste and predicting its future development, one of the biggest problems is what we don’t know. Properly documenting data about plastic pollution can be challenging, given the rate at which it’s growing and...
However, the largest amount of plastic waste does not necessarily translate to the biggest producer of plastic pollution. Data from 2019 on countries’ shares of global plastic waste in the oceans put The Philippines in the top spot, with more than 36% of global input, followed by India (12....
PLASTIC scrapECOSYSTEMSWELL-beingPOLLUTIONOur oceans, covering over 70% of the Earth's surface, are vital to life on our planet. They provide food, oxygen, climate regulation, and countless other essential services. However, the oceans are facing an insidious and growing threat: plas...
Plastic pollution can have serious consequences for ocean life. Large pieces of the material may be mistaken for prey and eaten. Sea turtles and whales may mistake a billowing plastic bag for a squid, for example. The bag may block the animal's airway, causing suffocation, or block the stom...
Our depth-resolved, polymer-specific data set demonstrates that (i) the smaller-sized microplastics were severely underestimated in previous assessments of marine plastic pollution and (ii) considerable amounts of small microplastics are lost from the surface waters and stored in the ocean interior. ...
Ocean pollution by plastic Hyun Chung. Woo Wednesday, December 5, 2007 Effects of plastics in ocean are really serious problem. “We live in a plastic convenience culture”. (http://.mountainfilm/downloads/docs/The_Plastic_Sea.pdf) Actually every human being on the world uses plastic ...
Pollution of the Ocean by Plastic and Trash Garbage has been discarded into the oceans for as long as humans have sailed the seven seas or lived on seashores or near waterways flowing into the sea. Since the 1940s, plastic use has increased dramatically, resulting in a huge quantity of ...
"We collected data on the amount and location of plastic pollution every 100 kilometres around the entire coast of Australia between 2011 and 2016," she said in a media release. "The highest concentrations of marine debris were found along the coastal backshores, where the vegetation begins." ...
Daily Data Services Topics› Environmental pollution worldwide› Plastic Items Dominate Ocean Garbage Ocean Waste by Niall McCarthy, Jun 11, 2021 According to a new analysis published in the journal Nature Sustainability, plastic items dominate garbage in the ocean. Funded by the BBVA Found...
What we don’t know is how serious a threat this plastic is to wildlife and to people eating seafood. “We are still trying to understand how worried we should be,” says Choy. So it’s not clear how plastic pollution compares with the many other threats to ocean life, ...