Sailing Seas of Plastic is an interactive mapped visualization of the concentration of plastic inwards the world's oceans. According to the map at that spot are 5,250 billion pieces of plastic, amongst a combined weight of 268,940 tonnes, adrift on the seas of the world.
This point density map shows the estimated concentration of floating plastic inwards the oceans. Each point on the map represents twenty kg of floating plastic. The estimations are based on the results of 24 survey expeditions (2007-2013) as well as on current of air as well as sea drift models.
You tin too overlay the sailing tracks of the 24 survey expeditions on pinnacle of the point map.
Do you lot desire to know where your message inwards a bottle volition plow upward or rail downwardly the path of local floating pollution? Adrift is a Google Map that tin present you lot how all kinds of objects drift on sea currents.
The map uses information from observed tracks revealed yesteryear buoys inwards the Global Drifter Program as well as from other scientific question into sea currents to predict where an object(s) volition destination up. Just house your condom duck anywhere on the map (in the sea obviously) as well as the map volition animate where your duck is probable to drift.
Despite the whimsical usage of the condom duck this map has a real serious purpose. Plastic litter is ane of the biggest problems inwards the oceans as well as the map provides a non bad visualization of how this litter tin spread through the oceans as well as impairment sea-life.
