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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A vast lake or even an ocean, spread far beyond where the eye could see. The shore was lined with shining sand, and was being softly lapped by waves. It was covered with small shells which were once inhabited by the first living beings. Around this sea stood a huge rock wall that was...
Environmental organization prepares to address the problem of floating plastic waste in the ocean 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 i...
The world is waking up to a crisis of ocean plastic—and we're tracking the developments and solutions as they happen.
On Midway Atoll, a remote cluster of islands in the central Pacific more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent, the detritus of our mass consumption surfaces in an astonishing place: inside the stomachs of thousands of dead baby albatrosses. The nesting chicks are fed lethal quantities of...
that the global riverine system is contributing between 1.15 and 2.41 million metric tons per year of plastic waste into the world’s ocean. We found that two-thirds of this input was generated by the top 20 most polluting rivers and that these were mostly located on the Asian continent. ...
ocean life, and waterways. Much of the ocean’s plastic ends up in what is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area of the Pacific Ocean strewn with floating plastic debris twice the size of Texas. Ocean life and marine vertebrae—including birds, dolphins, fish, and turtles—often ...
SAS’s latest campaign is using a 30-ft warship made out of ocean plastic from around the UK's coastline to communicate a message about a growing, continent-sized island of plastic rubbish – the North Pacific Gyre –floating in the North Pacific. The largest ocean garbage site in the ...