The Seas of Plastic is a visualization of the floating plastic debris that is polluting the world's oceans. The visualization includes an interactive globe showing the 5 large circulating gyres of plastic inwards the North Pacific, North Atlantic, Indian, South Atlantic too North Atlantic oceans. The visualization equally good includes a Sankey Diagram that shows the total of plastic debris which dissimilar countries contribute to each of these 5 circulating gyres.
The information for the Seas of Plastic visualization comes from a Lagrangian particle tracking model which fake thirty years of input, carry too accumulation of floating plastic debris some the world. The model tracks the paths of plastic particles from province to sea too estimates the relative size of each of the 5 circulatory gyres.
Around 8 1000000 tonnes of plastic is dumped into the world's oceans every unmarried year. This plastic is unsafe to marine life and, i time it enters the nutrient chain, ultimately unsafe to the wellness of the human race.
The Ocean Cleanup organisation believes that betwixt 1.15 too 2.41 1000000 metric tons of the plastic inwards the oceans originates from the world's river systems. Two thirds of it from the rivers of Asia. To help explicate how too where plastic ends upward inwards the world's oceans the Ocean Cleanup has released an interactive map, River Plastic Emissions to the World’s Oceans.
The map shows river systems some the globe. The predicted input from each river scheme is shown at the coast using scaled circular markers. These predicted inputs are based on a model which looks at population density, waste materials management, topography, hydrography, the locations of dams too the reported concentration of plastic inwards rivers some the world.
You tin terminate come across where all that plastic goes on Sailing Seas of Plastic, an interactive mapped visualization of the concentration of plastic inwards the world's oceans. According to the map at that topographic point are 5,250 billion pieces of plastic 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 xx kg of floating plastic. The estimations are based on the results of 24 survey expeditions (2007-2013) too on air current too body of body of water drift models.
If y'all desire y'all tin terminate equally good overlay the sailing tracks of the 24 survey expeditions on overstep of the point map.
