Plastic trash makes its way into the ocean from many different routes. Inthe watersaround the United States, much of the floating plastic is from people’s litter items dropped here and there rather than mass dumping. In places like Indonesia, where trash-collection infrastructure is not as deve...
根据倒数第二段最后一句"It had successfully collected plastic debris floating(漂浮)in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest collection of ocean plastic in the world.(它成功地收集了漂浮在大太平洋垃圾带上的塑料碎片,这是世界上最大的海洋塑料垃圾带。)”可知,001/B系统它能捡起很多塑料碎片。结合...
The Ocean Conservancy report suggeststhat by providingmore wase collection services, closing the leakage points within the collection system, gettingrid of waste with effectivelandfill and building morerecycling facilties,the plastics leakage could be cut by 50% by 2020.It's not just an ...
Plastic in the oceanWaste treatmentOptimizationPlastic wasteEnergy and material recoveryThe recent social care about the concentration of plastics in the ocean arises with the necessity of developing solutions to this problem. Some projects are dealing with the technology of collection, however, the ...
~10–30 m below the MLD (Fig.1b; Supplementary Table1). The deepest (mesopelagic) layer of particle collection was 100 m below this intermediate sampling horizon, a depth well into the interior of the ocean (Fig.1b; Supplementary Table1) and isolated from the ocean surface for ...
Even when a waste management company picks up waste to landfill it, poorly equipped landfills or illegal dumping mean that trash still ends up in the ocean.But how can countries stop the leakage ofwaste into the ocean? T he Ocean Conservancyreport suggests five "levers": waste collection...
Danish offshore support vessel operator Maersk Supply Service will continue providing marine support to The Ocean Cleanup…
By 2040 tha t number will double to four billion, mostly i n rural areas in middle- and low-income count ries. Closing the collection gap and connectin g them to a garbage system require connectin g 500000 people a day , every day, between n ow and 2040. T hat is a promising ...
There's a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.It's bigger than Texas﹣and growing.The way to clean it up now is to catch it with nets.That is both costly and slow.Instead,the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes 62﹣mile﹣long floating barriers that would use natura...
However, what gets overlooked is that the large ships used to drag the collection net have a sizable carbon footprint. Dragging nets through ocean water with massive ships powered by fossil fuels adds to air and climate pollution. In their own Environmental Impact Assessment report, it can be ...