In September volunteers to a greater extent than or less the the world took business office inward an audit of plastic litter. Nearly one-half a meg pieces of plastic waste matter were collected inward 51 unlike countries. 43% of those private pieces of plastic were clearly marked amongst a consumer brand. The transcend global plastic polluter to a greater extent than or less the world, according to the audit, was Coca Cola. This is the instant twelvemonth inward a row that Coca Cola was the largest plastic polluter, based on the results of the World Clean Up Day audit. 11,732 pieces of Coca Cola branded plastics were flora inward total. This is to a greater extent than than the side past times side 3 transcend brands combined.
The Biggest Plastic Polluters interactive map allows y'all to sentiment the levels of plastic flora inward countries to a greater extent than or less the world. The map uses colored scaled markers to demo the amount of plastic picked upwards inward all 51 countries who took business office inward the audit. You tin sentiment the 'Grand Total' of all plastic flora inward each county or sentiment maps of the 'Coca Cola', 'Nestle', or 'Pepsi' branded plastics flora inward each country.
The map itself y'all tin cause got amongst a pinch of salt. Obviously the totals flora inward each dry reason are somewhat theme on the release of volunteers who took business office inward the audit inward each country. The largest markers so don't necessarily demo the countries producing the largest amount of plastic waste. However it is interesting to run across how much the unlike branded plastics construct upwards of the full release of plastics flora inward each country.
The Ocean Cleanup in all likelihood provides a to a greater extent than scientific assessment of plastic pollution levels to a greater extent than or less the world. The Ocean Cleanup claims that "80% of river plastic pollution entering the world's oceans stalk from M rivers". In Plastic Sources the arrangement has mapped out what they tell are the world's 1,000 almost polluting rivers together with the 30,000 rivers responsible for the other 20% of the plastic entering our oceans.
Currently the map includes rattling petty information on how the arrangement calculates the amount of plastic waste matter distributed past times each river or how they decide which are the almost polluted rivers. The arrangement says that their model is based on information on 'plastic waste, land-use, wind, atmospheric precipitation together with rivers' simply non where that information comes from. It does tell that "Detailed information on our modeling approach together with information volition follow inward our scientific update."
Litterbase is some other arrangement which is attempting to decide the source of the plastic pollution flora inward the world's oceans. Currently Litterbase provides a summarized overview of the results from over 1,900 studies into the amount together with composition of litter together with its lawsuit on marine environments. An example of i of these summaries is Distribution of Litter Types inward Different Realms, which is an interactive map created from the results of 916 scientific publications on the amount, distribution together with composition of litter inward the world's oceans.
There are gaps inward our noesis where petty scientific question has taken place, for example to a greater extent than or less Africa together with the Polar regions. One agency that nosotros tin fill upwards inward these gaps inward our noesis is past times modeling the density of pollution inward the oceans based on the results of scientific studies. Sailing Seas of Plastic is a point density map which shows the estimated concentration of floating plastic inward the oceans based on the results of 24 survey expeditions (2007-2013) together with on air current together with body of body of water drift models.
Each point on the Sailing Seas of Plastic map represents xx kg of floating plastic. According to the map at that topographic point are 5,250 billion pieces of plastic adrift on the seas of the world. If y'all desire y'all tin also overlay the sailing tracks of the 24 survey expeditions on transcend of the point map.
