① Plastic pollution(塑料污染) in the ocean(海洋) is bad for wildlife. It takes years to break it down and is difficult to clean it up. Luckily, scientists found a way to stop plastic waste going into our oceans.② The WasteShark is a robot. It collects plastic waste in rivers and ne...
Plastic pollution occurs when plastic objects and debris accumulates in the environment to such an extent that it adversely affects wildlife. Moreover, plastic does not degrade quickly, and disposal has become a big problem. Plastic even has the potential to travel up the food chain and enter ...
Plastic pollution: Green light for historic treaty 历史性”协商应对塑料污染 世界多国将制定一项旨在解决塑料污染问题的国际条约。近200个国家同意就这份协议展开磋商,以采取行动,应对 “塑料危机”。There's growing concern thatdiscardedpla...
India has imposed a ban on 19 single-use plastics on items ranging from straws to earbuds in order to combat worsening pollution in the world's second-most populous nation of nearly 1.4 billion people.
in the environment for hundreds of years在环境中坚持数百年be ingested by marine animals and birds被海洋动物和鸟类摄入cause injury or death造成伤害或死亡clogs waterways堵塞水道lead to flooding and water pollution导致洪水泛滥和水污染harms land animals that become entangled in plastic伤害被塑料缠住的陆地...
Plastic, nutrition and pollution; relationships between ingested plastic and metal concentrations in the livers of two Pachyptila seabirdsNaturally occurring metals and metalloids [metal(loid)s] are essential for the physiological functioning of wildlife; however, environmental contamination by metal(loid) ...
Plastics are so ubiquitous in our lives that there are countless other sources of plastic pollution. In the eastern United States, the Hudson River carries 300 million clothing fibers into the Atlantic Ocean every day, according to a 2017 study. About half of the fibers are plastic, many enter...
In the last century or so, environmentalists have urged us _2__(cut) the amount of plastic we use and recycle the plastic bags. However, with only less than 14 percent of the total amount recycled, people are still struggling with plastic pollution globally.There may be a solution. ...
Plastic pollution is growing rapidly across Earth's ecosystems and its threat to humanity and wildlife is too. Outcomes for health and the environment will be severe unless we address it, says a United Nations(UN)report. But the discovery of microplastics in human blood means immediate action is...
Instead, change is needed across the whole supply chain, they said, from the manufacturing of plastics, to pre-consumption (known as upstream) and after use (recycling and reusing) to stop the spread of plastic pollution into the environment. ...