2/28/2023 0 Comments Endless ocean wiki atollDischarges of plastic are spread around the globe from the 192 countries with coastal borders considered in the study, but the largest quantities are estimated to be coming from a relatively small number of countries in Asia and other middle income, rapidly developing countries.Quantities of plastic entering the ocean are growing rapidly with the global increase in population and plastics use, with the potential for cumulative inputs of plastic waste into the ocean as high as 250 Mt by 2025.The amount of plastic waste entering the oceans from land each year exceeds 4.8 million tons (Mt), and may be as high as 12.7 Mt – or nearly one to three orders of magnitude greater than the reported mass of plastic in high-concentration ocean gyres.Her group at the Environmental Engineering College of Engineering, University of Georgia has published many papers on the problem, most recently “Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean” (summary here – full. Jambeck is one of the world’s leading experts on trash – and specifically on plastics entering the oceans. As the two photos above illustrate, Manilla Bay and Rio Ozama, lots of plastic ends up in the sea.ĭr. Plastics, however, are less prone to biodegradation – and some types of plastic are very resistant. Most trash and garbage is fairly readily decomposed in the natural environment and in modern landfills. There is no longer any country or municipality known to be disposing of municipal trash and garbage at sea today. It used to be dumped intentionally – New York City barged its municipal trash out to sea and tipped it in for years and years, as recently as 1992. There is a lot of plastic trash and debris going to the world’s oceans. There appears to be a door-less cheap refrigerator floating amongst the other debris. There are low-lying slums upriver – tropical storms or even simple heavy rainfalls wash trash off the streets and into the river – hurricanes wash entire neighborhoods into the river. I’ve seen similar scenes in the Rio Ozama in Santo Domingo, this one at the “yacht marina” on the eastern shore just below the swing bridge: The Guardian is atypical in that it states, in the caption, that the photo is of Manila Bay, Philippines – garbage forced by the wind into a raft near shore after a tropical storm washed all the trash from the city streets and slums into the bay. This clip from the Guardian shows a typical example: The implication by association is that the image is a photograph of said ‘garbage patch’. The image is usually associated with the words “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” in the text of the article. Images such as this appear on the Internet and in the Main Stream Media, alongside of almost every article or report about the pollution of the Earth’s oceans with plastics of all kinds.
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