The Ocean Cleanup claims that "80% of river plastic pollution entering the world's oceans stalk from G rivers". In Plastic Sources the arrangement has mapped out the world's 1,000 most polluting rivers as well as the 30,000 rivers responsible for the other 20% of the plastic entering our oceans.
Currently the map includes real fiddling information on how the arrangement calculates the amount of plastic waste matter distributed past times each river or how they produce upwards one's ask heed which are the most polluted rivers. The arrangement says that their model is based on information on 'plastic waste, land-use, wind, atmospheric precipitation as well as rivers' simply non where that information comes from. It does tell that "Detailed information on our modeling approach as well as information volition follow inwards our scientific update."
On the interactive map the 1,000 worst plastic polluting rivers are marked amongst large ruby-red & white circular markers. The other 3,000 polluting rivers some the footing are marked amongst smaller bluish markers. If you lot select a river's mark on the map you lot tin read to a greater extent than almost how much plastic the river is estimated to live carrying into the ocean.
The Ocean Cleanup has developed technology scientific discipline which they claim tin intercept plastic inwards rivers as well as thence halt it reaching the ocean. Having identified the 1,000 most polluting rivers it right away wants to purpose its technology scientific discipline inwards those rivers as well as past times so doing cut back past times 80% the amount of plastic entering the oceans.
Around 8 1000000 tonnes of plastic is dumped into the world's oceans every unmarried year. This plastic is non solely unsafe to marine life it is too a danger to us equally well. Once the plastic enters the nutrient chain it ends upwards beingness a threat to the wellness of people some the world. The plastic inwards the world's oceans comes from mismanaged plastic waste matter as well as waste matter which is intentionally dumped into the world's rivers, which as well as so flows into our seas. Studies are right away starting fourth dimension to map where this plastic ends upwards as well as where it originates from.
Litterbase is i arrangement attempting to collate the results of scientific studies researching the levels of plastic pollution flora inwards the world's oceans. Currently Litterbase provides a summarized overview of the results from over 1,900 studies into the amount as well as composition of litter as well as its consequence on marine environments. An event of i of these summaries is Distribution of Litter Types inwards Different Realms, which is an interactive map created from the results of 916 scientific publications on the amount, distribution as well as composition of litter inwards the world's oceans.
There are gaps inwards our cognition where fiddling scientific question has taken place, for event some Africa as well as the Polar regions. One agency that nosotros tin produce total inwards these gaps inwards our cognition is past times modeling the density of pollution inwards 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 inwards the oceans based on the results of 24 survey expeditions (2007-2013) as well as on air current as well as bounding main 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 you lot desire you lot tin too overlay the sailing tracks of the 24 survey expeditions on overstep of the point map.
