荷兰的海洋清理基金会(The Ocean Cleanup Foundation)对位于加利福尼亚和夏威夷之间的太平洋垃圾带进行了评估。研究的结果发表在《Scientific Reports》期刊上,题为“Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic” 。评估结果显示,一些废弃的空塑料袋通过下水道进入了海洋,而不断运动的...
Plastic trash collected from the garbage patch in the North Pacific Ocean is mostly from fishing activities. A study published in Scientific Reports states that most of the identifiable trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch comes from just five nations. Th...
荷兰的海洋清理基金会(The Ocean Cleanup Foundation)对位于加利福尼亚和夏威夷之间的太平洋垃圾带进行了评估。研究的结果发表在《Scientific Reports》期刊上,题为“Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic” 。评估结果显示,一些废弃的空塑料袋通过下水道进入了海洋,而不断运动的...
There's a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.It's bigger than Texas-and growing.The way to clean it up now is to catch it with nets.That is both costly and slow.Instead,the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes 62-mile-long floating barriers that would use natural...
Okay, so there's a massive continent made of refuse floating around in the ocean. So what do we do about it? Let's not contribute to it, for starters. And while we should be doing our damnedest to keep trash out every body of water period, keeping your junk out of the following ...
There's even one in the Pacific Ocean. See more recycling pictures. Right now in the United States there are landfills everywhere. However, it's getting harder and harder to create new landfills because no one wants to live near them. So, what if the U.S. were to create one ...
Piles of plastic garbage flowing around in the Pacific Ocean right now and much of it is the result of our own littering and improper trash disposal(处理). Some waterways in Europe suffer the same littering problem, which led to the EU banning single-use plastics, like cutlery and bags, ...
Here we report microplastic in sediments of the Challenger Deep, the deepest known region on the planet, abyssal plains and hadal trenches located in the Pacific Ocean (4900 m-10,890 m). Microplastic abundance reached 71.1 items per kg dry weight sediment. That high concentrations are found at...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch There aren’t many environmental disasters bigger than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. As the name suggests, it’s an enormous amount of trash that... 21Aug Ocean Plastics Pollution to outweigh Fish by 2050 ...
He helped collect garbage from the beach, then logged and categorized it in the Sustainable Coastlines’ uniquely comprehensive database. Since it started, Sustainable Coastlines and its growing legions of volunteers have removed enough trash from shorelines around New Zeal...