Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific OceanAt the start of the Academy Award-winning movie" American Beauty," a character videotapes a plastic grocery bag as it drifts into the air, an event he casts as a symbol of life's unpredictable currents, and declares ...
HONG KONG, April 29 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Project Kaisei, an environmental organization that has been established to address the problem of floating plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean, has announced it plans to embark on a 70 day expedition, between June and August 2009, to examine the Plast...
System 001/B is the Ocean Cleanup’s second attempt at collecting garbage from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The patch is an accumulation of plastic so large, that some are campaigning to have it officiallyrecognized as a continent. The prototype was launched from Vancouver in June. Not ...
Yet, the relatively high concentrations of ocean plastic found at the surface of the North Pacific Ocean28,29 where buoyant plastics originating from Asia can accumulate30, suggest that our assumptions are plausible. It has been estimated that between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastic enters ...
Maximum inputs for Europe, South America, and Australia Pacific region occur from December to May while Africa, Central, and North America contribute more significantly from June to November. Relative seasonal plastic input per continent Solving the spatial and temporal variability of sources is key ...
The area is visually referred to as the “eighth continent” by scientists. It is a whirlpool of 1.8 trillion pieces and 4 million tons of plastic waste. In the World, 300 Million Tons of Plastic Are Produced per Year, about 8 million tons of plastic enters the sea every year, and ...
Floating plastic is transported by various processes (for more details see the next section) and accumulates in certain parts of the oceans. Among the oceanic accumulation zones, there are five major plastic gyres, the North and South Atlantic, North and South Pacific, and Indian Ocean gyres (...
Once in the atmosphere, plastics could remain airborne for up to 6.5 days–enough time to cross a continent, said Natalie Mahowald, coauthor on the paper. The most likely place for plastic deposition from the atmosphere is over (and into) the Pacific and Mediterranean oceans, but ...
The world is waking up to a crisis of ocean plastic—and we're tracking the developments and solutions as they happen.
Indian Ocean are limited, particularly with regard to knowledge about the pathways and convergence (accumulation of floating objects to a convergence area of surface currents) of riverine debris, despite the second largest plastic load, following that in the North Pacific Ocean (Eriksen et al., ...