Numbers as large as these make it difficult to comprehend the scale of the issue and the feasibility of possible solutions6,7. Unfortunately, unless drastic steps are taken, the numbers and challenges will only grow, with the quantity of waste entering the ocean predicted to increase ten-fold ...
(max) estimates for each category are shown with dashed bars. Numbers above the bars indicate particle size category. Plastic input is represented by the cumulative mass of bulk plastic litter that is estimated to have entered the Atlantic Ocean between 1950 and 2015 (refs.2,4,19). The load...
Roy Well, I decided to give some of my old clothes away to charity and start wearing my suit and tie and cut my hair short. Also, I'm wearing these shoes that have a metal sole to reduce my plastic footprint. Feifei 不过,你知...
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Total fruit numbers over plastic mulches were significantly higher than that of control treatment. The content of phenolic compounds was similar between treatments, while anthocyanin content, IC 50 value, and flavonoid content significantly were affected by colored plastics. In conclusion, colored plastic...
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These numbers are understandably hard to make concrete sense of, even at the scale of specific companies, such as Coca-Cola, which produced 3 million tons of plastic packaging in 2017. That’s the equivalent of making200,000 bottles per minute. ...
when the planet was a ball of lava and toxic gases. In this fledgling period, free-flying meteors smashed into the early Earth, easily reaching the surface thanks to their greater numbers and Earth's lack of an atmosphere to burn them up. This heavy bombardment stage, while violent, is be...
et al. Identification and Assessment of Riverine Input of (Marine) Litter. Final Report for the European Commission DG Environment under Framework Contract No ENV.D.2/FRA/2012/0025 (2015). Lechner, A. et al. The Danube so colourful: a potpourri of plastic litter outnumbers fish larvae in ...
and hence the y-axis is in terms of arbitrary units (a.u.). The horizontal position of the spectral peaks is the relevant metric for confirming sample/reference match in each panel. Sample numbers correspond to LACM catalog numbers, and inset photos show the exact diet samples tested (refer...