Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city, located on the eastern end of the country’s main island Java, made this decision in April, 2018. Now, locals can pay for their bus rides by putting plastic cups or bottles directly on the bus. A two-hour bus ride costs 10 plastic cups or ...
1) in the Indian Ocean. The islands are an Australian external territory. The much larger, southern atoll consists of a horse-shoe chain of 26 islands around a shallow, central lagoon with West and Home Island inhabited by ~600 people20. The northern atoll (North Keeling, designated as ...
"The ocean is getting worse everywhere," says Charles Moore, an expert. In 1997, Moore traveled from Hawaii to Californi a by sea. On the journey, he discovered a huge "island" in the Pacific Ocean. The "island" was mostly made of plastic trash and it was twice the size of Texas(...
七、 根据首字母提示补全短文1.I the ocean, there's a big island. It's 2. f of plastic things.such as old toys, bottles, shoes and plastic bags. They are 3. bf for fish and birds. They're bad for our 4. h.,too.This island is now six times as big as England.It's 5. g ...
An example for the island of Java in Indonesia illustrating the different datasets involved in this framework is provided in Fig. 5. Estimating monthly averaged catchment runoff. In our model, surface runoff is included as a model parameter to account for (1) the introduction of MPW in ...
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根据文章第一句第二句In the Pacific Ocean, there's a high island. It's fill of plastic things.译为“在太平洋海域,有一个高山岛屿。里面都是塑料的东西”,故答案选B。3。【答案】F【解析】题干意思是我们应该到处扔塑料袋。根据题干的意思,可知是错的,我们不应该到处扔塑料袋。答案填F。4.【答案】...
And that’s just in the north Pacific Ocean. In the other destinations Leeson and his film crew visited, the problem was just as severe: Trefoil Island, off the coast of Tasmania; Lord Howe Island, 580 kilometres east of Australia; as well as uninhabited islands and archipelagos in the So...
The only previous record of noddy nests containing plastic comes from Salas y Gómez Island, in the southeast Pacific Ocean, where all six grey noddy nests examined contained debris with an average of two items per nest (six ropes and lines, four plastic fragments, one mesh and one strap; ...
For comparison: a few hundred kilometers from the patch you’d struggle to find values of 0.1 kg per square kilometer. A summary of the science of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be found here and more details on the trash island misconception here....