Plastic pollution permeates every inch of the ocean – from microplastics in the food chain to plastic water bottles floating on the surface. One of the most famous examples, however, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This monolith of ocean pollution is made up of all kinds of marine debri...
According to the Environmental Protection Agency or EPA, the following statistics apply to municipal solid waste collected in the United States in 2018. (Comparable statistics from more recent years are unavailable at the moment.) The numbers are given in thousands of U.S. tons, and they all a...
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According to the researchers, areas of the ocean with dense concentrations of plastic may trick turtles and other animals into thinking that there is an abundant food source. "Once these plastics are in the ocean, we don't have a good way to remove them or prevent them from smelling like ...
Concern over plastic pollution of the marine environment is severe. The mass-imbalance between the plastic litter supplied to and observed in the ocean currently suggests a missing sink. However, here we show that the ocean interior conceals high loads of small-sized plastic debris which can balan...
The UK’s coasts have been suffering from plastic pollution, with approximately 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the oceans, according to scientists from the 5 Gyres Institute. Click to read more...
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The amount of plastics estimated to be going into the water is equal to how much tuna(金枪鱼) is fished per year. So “we are taking out tuna and putting in plastic,” said the study coauthor, Kara Lavendar Law. Jambeck used World Bank statistics on 192 countries’ waste streams to ...
Sign in to download full-size image Fig. 19.4.Examples of size classes of plastic waste found in the ocean and along coastlines; note that there is no photograph of nano-sized particles as they are too small to be observed easily with the naked eye. ...
Creating plastic containers that easily degrade in sea water would be a dream solution to the growing problem of plastic waste in the ocean, but a team of Penn State New Kensington researchers suggest that, at least for now, recycling and finding plastic