Plastic bag in the ocean. Credit: Making Oceans Plastic Free Clean-up devices that collect waste from the ocean surface won’t solve the plastic pollution problem, a new study shows. Researchers compared estimates of current and future plastic waste with the ability of floating clean-up devices to collect it—and found the […]
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Ocean plastic is on track to triple by 2040
Plastic pollution in the ocean is on track to get a lot worse: In two decades, if business continues as usual, there will be nearly three times as much plastic waste leaking into the ocean every year, according to a new analysis. By 2040, since the existing plastic in the […]
Ocean Plastic Pollution Is on Track to Triple By 2040
(Bloomberg) — The annual flow of plastics into our oceans is on a trajectory to triple over the next 20 years, which could add up to 110 pounds of plastic trash for every meter of coastline worldwide, a new report finds. Load Error That path is not inevitable, however. The […]