136,145 pieces and 668 kg of floating debris collected by our trawls. We estimated that an area of 1.6 million km2holds ocean plastic concentrations ranging from 10 s to 100 s kg km−2(Fig.3). This area, which comprises ~87% of the ocean plastic material...
The company has invested tens of millions of yuan to introduce a series of international advanced production equipment, including the Italian Tianma trademark machine, the Belgian Picasso trademark machine, the built-in tracking laser machine, and the American Merlot edging machine....
Considering currently accepted plastic inputs from land- and marine-based sources, our global model predicted millions of tonnes of ocean plastic to be within the GPGP region, while we only found tens of thousands of tonnes. This two-orders of magnitude difference suggests the existence of mecha...