Study finds some 13 million tonnes of plastic enters ocean yearly
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A study published in the Feb. 13 issue of the journal Science has some grim news for the world's oceans. Up to 13 million…
A study published in the Feb. 13 issue of the journal Science has some grim news for the world's oceans. Up to 13 million…
It turns out our pristine oceans, filled with all sorts of colorful marine life, corals and plankton, are riddled with 8…
A new study calculating the amount of plastic waste going into the ocean finds that 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the…
Some 8 million tons of plastic are being thrown into the ocean per year. Despite its highly developed garbage collection system…
Plastic is ubiquitous today, found in many consumer items. But once these products are thrown away, they often end up in the…
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Ocean currents have been carrying floating debris into all five of the world's major oceanic gyres…
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Ocean currents have been carrying floating debris into all five of the world's major oceanic gyres…
Each year, tons of plastic is dumped into the ocean. Plastic grocery bags, beverage bottles, food wrappers, toys and other bits…
Ocean currents have been carrying floating debris into all five of the world’s major oceanic gyres for decades. The rotating…
Περίπου οκτώ εκατ. τόνοι πλαστικών αποβλήτων καταλήγουν κάθε χρόνο στους ωκεανούς του πλανήτη, σύμφωνα με νέες εκτιμήσεις των επι…
Σαράντα χρόνια μετά την τελευταία επιστημονική εκτίμηση για το θέμα, μελέτη στο περιοδικό Science υπολογίζει ότι κάθε χρόνο καταλ…
Up to 8 million tons of trash - plastic bags, bottles and toys, just to name a few items - ends up in the world’s oceans each…
Ny opgørelse udpeger Kina som hovedsynderen bag, at der hvert år udledes, hvad der svarer til fem poser fyldt med plast for…
11:02 Jaarlijks verdwijnt naar schatting 8 miljoen ton plastic in de oceanen. Anders gezegd: 7 miljard plastic zakjes per dag…
A staggering eight million metric tonnes of plastic end up in our oceans every year, and that figure could increase by ten-fold…
Jambeck forecasts that the cumulative impact to the oceans will equal 155 million metric tonnes by 2025.
A staggering eight million metric tonnes of plastic end up in our oceans every year, and that figure could increase by ten-fold…
Uno studio su Science calcola per la prima volta la quantità di rifiuti di plastica che vengono dispersi negli oceani. I…
More than 25,000kg of plastic waste is littered in New Zealand each day - and each of us mismanages seven grams of it daily.That…
Jedes Jahr gelangen von unseren Küsten gut acht Millionen Tonnen Plastikmüll in die Meere
Washington, Feb 13 (IANS) — About eight million tonnes of plastic waste wound up in the world’s oceans in 2010, a study says…
About eight million tonnes of plastic waste wound up in the world's oceans in 2010, a study says, warning that the annual input…
Washington, Feb 13 (IANS) About eight million tonnes of plastic waste wound up in the world's oceans in 2010, a study says…
About eight million tonnes of plastic waste find their way into the world's oceans each year, say scientists.
Around eight million metric tons of shopping bags, bottles, food wrappers, toys and other plastic waste drifted into the world's…
Between five and 13 million tonnes of plastic debris winds up in oceans every year, a number that could increase many times…
Nel 2010, 192 nazioni costiere hanno prodotto 275 milioni di tonnellate di plastica: di questi sono finiti in mare da 4,8 a 12,7…
Ocean currents have been carrying floating debris into all five of the world's major oceanic gyres for decades and scientists…
About eight million tonnes of plastic waste wound up in the worlds oceans in 2010, a study says, warning that the annual input…
Scientists have recently revealed that 8m tons of plastic clutters oceans each year.
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The world's oceans are clogged with plastic debris, but how much of it finds its…
San José (United States) (AFP) - Shoddy waste management and littering across the globe likely added eight million metric tons (1…
A new study has concluded that 8 million metric tons of plastic made its way to our oceans in 2010, but the lead author of…
A plastic grocery bag cartwheels down the beach until a gust of wind spins it into the ocean. In 192 coastal countries, this…
We're dumping a lot more plastic in the oceans than we thought, a new study finds -- and it's going to get worse
A scientist estimating the weight of candy wrappers, bags, bottles, syringes and other plastic trash in the world's water sees…
Plastic waste washed up on a beach in Haiti. Timothy Townsend You might have heard the oceans are full of plastic, but how full…
Ocean currents have been carrying floating debris into all five of the world's major oceanic gyres for decades. The rotating…
How much mismanaged plastic waste is making its way from land to ocean has been a decades-long guessing game. Now scientists…
About 8 million tons of plastic waste wind up in the world's oceans every year, according to a study out Thursday that warned…
A plastic grocery bag cartwheels down the beach until a gust of wind spins it into the ocean. In 192 coastal countries, this…
Every year, between five and 13 million more tons of plastics wind up in the world’s oceans and a whopping 80 percent of that…
Stap 1: voeg jaarlijks acht miljoen ton plastic afval aan de oceanen toe. Klaar. Stap 1: voeg jaarlijks acht miljoen ton…
Up to 12.7 million metric tons of plastic ended up in the oceans in 2010, according to a new report -- which also ranks the…
Schon heute schwimmen Millionen Tonnen Plastik in den Meeren. Tiere sterben daran, auch wir nehmen kleine Partikel auf. Und die…
Bis zu 12,7 Millionen Tonnen an Plastikabfällen landen nach einer neuen Hochrechnung jedes Jahr in den Ozeanen. Bis 2025 könnte…
Late last year we learned that, thanks to human beings, the oceans are carrying at least 5 trillion pieces of floating plastic …
For the first time, scientists have estimated how much plastic in the ocean comes from the land, as opposed to from ships and…
US-Australia study is first scientific assessment of serious ecological problem
Researchers estimate that up to 13 million tons of plastic waste go into the sea every year, and the rate could rise…
Si se colocara toda esa basura a lo largo de las costas de la Tierra habría cinco bolsas de la compra llenas de plástico cada…
It's equivalent to five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline
Ocean currents have been carrying floating debris into all five of the world's major oceanic gyres for decades. The rotating…
Trillions of microscopic plastic bits litter the oceans of Earth, converging in huge trash vortexes before becoming lodged in…
What happens to our plastic bottles and lids and containers after we throw them out? This has long been something of a mystery.
Humans are throwing enough plastic into the world's oceans to cover Manhattan in coffee stirrers and plastic bags, 34 times over.
For the first time, we have a figure for how much plastic ends up in the ocean - and what's on the surface is nothing compared…
Our oceans are being filled with enough plastic waste to line every coastline in the world, according to the first detailed…
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New calculations astound scientists
( American Association for the Advancement of Science ) Researchers suggest that the world's coastal communities generated…
( University of Georgia ) How much mismanaged plastic waste is making its way from land to ocean has been a decades-long…
( Sea Education Association ) The study, co-authored by Kara Lavender Law of Sea Education Association and principal…
( University of California - Santa Barbara ) Ocean currents have been carrying floating debris into all five of the world's…
Model finds 8 million tonnes of plastic rubbish makes its way into seas every year and much of it remains unaccounted
Synthetic Polymers, commonly known as plastics, have made themselves a permanent part of the marine environment for the first…