E The world is being covered by plastic. In China, the amount of plastic waste rose into 14million kilograms last year, but only about 9% was recycled. Over 1.32 million kilograms o plastic found its way into th
Plastic causes all kinds of pollution – we’ve spoken about land and water pollution, but it also creates air pollution just by being created in the first place. Clearing areas of plastic waste is difficult and expensive. The amount of plastic waste in the world is so huge that it’s ...
Passage 1The amount of plastic waste flowing into the ocean could triple in 20 years unless businesses and governments act to reduce plastic production. That warning comes from a new study that appeared recently in the publication Science.The study was carried out by scientists and industry experts...
【题目】The world has a plastics problem. And not just with bottles. Straws(吸管), toothbrushes, toys—all kinds of plastics are placed in landfills. There are 5 billion tons of plastic waste in the world. Landfills have a large part of it. By 2050, they could have 13 billion tons. ...
Can only people living in coastal communities solve the problem of plastic waste? 文字稿 Reducing the eight million tons of plasticdumpedin the world’s oceans every year is now a priority around the globe and closing the loop by recycling is one answer. ...
All of these materials can add to the amount of plastic waste in (57)___ environment. At the same time, it can result in the (58) ___ of animals. Sea animals, such as whales and sea-birds often mistake balloon pieces for food, and if eaten, those pieces can make them hard to ...
Much of the planet is swimming in discarded plastic, which is harming animal and possibly human health. Can plastic pollution be cleaned up?
Plastic waste in the world's oceans is affecting marine (海洋的) life in new and unusual ways. A group of US and Canadian scientists found some species are living on a huge are a of plastic garbage floating(漂浮) in the Pacific Ocean.Linsey Haram of the Smithsonian Environmental Research ...
entire U.S. population in 2016, as well as the amount of plastic waste illegally dumped domestically and the amount likely to have been inadequately managed in countries that imported materials collected in the United States for recycling, both of which contribute plastic waste to land and the ...
Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions and GRID-Arendal 2022年3月2日 Part 1: A mountain of plastic waste While most people know about the enormous amounts of plastic waste swimming in the world’s seas and oceans, the widespread and increasing pollution of remote and mou...