According to a groundbreaking study published earlier this year in the journal Science,somewhere between 40,000 and 110,000 metric tons of plastic waste generated by Americans ends up in the ocean.Population size and the quality of waste management systems largely determine which countries contribute the greatest mass of uncaptured waste available to become plastic marine debris.
The ocean is always downstream. One of the problem is the illegal dumping of trash in rural areas , which includes a lot of plastic, A 2013 survey of the Meuse River, which flows 575 miles through France, Belgium and the Netherlands to the North Sea, found that it contained 70,000 pieces of plastic per square meter of water, about 500 of which were roughly an inch or bigger in size..
The ocean is always downstream. One of the problem is the illegal dumping of trash in rural areas , which includes a lot of plastic, A 2013 survey of the Meuse River, which flows 575 miles through France, Belgium and the Netherlands to the North Sea, found that it contained 70,000 pieces of plastic per square meter of water, about 500 of which were roughly an inch or bigger in size..
According to the research, Without waste management infrastructure improvements, the cumulative quantity of plastic waste available to enter the ocean from land is predicted to increase by an order of magnitude by 2025
http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1260352
http://www.seeker.com/plastic-trash-islands-forming-in-ocean-garbage-patch-1768827806.html#news.discovery.com
https://wastefreewaters.wordpress.com/
No comments:
Post a Comment