Post by account_disabled on Mar 11, 2024 3:48:38 GMT -6
Almost all the garbage we throw goes directly into the ocean and this directly affects the flora and fauna of this place. There you can find all kinds of waste that perhaps we cannot even imagine. Among them, children's toys, electronic devices, fishing nets, fragments of waste. In total 87 thousand tons of garbage are in the ocean.
Plastic garbage on Indian Ocean islands
Almost a million shoes and hundreds of thousands of toothbrushes were found among the millions of pieces of plastic that the sea has washed up on the beaches of some remote islands in the Indian Ocean.
According to the authors of a study that talks France Mobile Number List about the accumulation of garbage in this area, scientists inspected the Cocos (or Keeling) Islands, an almost uninhabited Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, and calculated that the beaches were covered with around 414 million plastic fragments, which could weigh up to 262 tons. The research was published May 16 in the journal Scientific Reports .
The amount of microplastics is indefinable. In 2017 alone, the team documented the amount of microplastics (fragments measuring between 2 and 5 millimeters), larger plastic debris, and wood and metal debris contaminating 25 beaches, and found nearly 977,000 shoes, as well as 373 thousand toothbrushes and other disposable items, including straws and plastic bags, which represented about a quarter of the total debris. Likewise, researchers discovered that 93 percent of the trash was buried up to 10 centimeters under sand.
“ Small, buried objects are a considerable risk to wildlife. To combat this problem, it is essential to have volunteers who carry out cleaning tasks and prevent new waste from reaching the sea ,” the authors warn.
According to NewsWeek, in order to emphasize the seriousness of the plastic problem, the study cites calculations from previous research, which determined that, in 2010, the ocean was contaminated with up to 14 million tons of plastics that were not properly discarded and managed.
Additionally, the authors say that almost half of the plastic created in the last six decades has been manufactured in the last 13 years, and that about 40 percent of those plastic items were discarded in the same year they were produced.
“Unfortunately, if drastic measures are not taken, the number will increase and the problem will become more serious. It has been predicted that, by 2025, the amount of waste that will reach the sea will increase tenfold,” the study warns.
According to Jennifer Lavers, lead author of the study and research scientist at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, at the University of Tasmania, Australia, "since the team only collected samples to a depth of 10 centimeters under the sand and could not reach “hot spots” of debris, it is likely that he made a conservative estimate»
Lavers explained that the population of the islands is a few hundred people, so the immense amount of plastic found on the beaches is a reflection of the way the sea moves that material.
Plastic garbage on Indian Ocean islands
Almost a million shoes and hundreds of thousands of toothbrushes were found among the millions of pieces of plastic that the sea has washed up on the beaches of some remote islands in the Indian Ocean.
According to the authors of a study that talks France Mobile Number List about the accumulation of garbage in this area, scientists inspected the Cocos (or Keeling) Islands, an almost uninhabited Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, and calculated that the beaches were covered with around 414 million plastic fragments, which could weigh up to 262 tons. The research was published May 16 in the journal Scientific Reports .
The amount of microplastics is indefinable. In 2017 alone, the team documented the amount of microplastics (fragments measuring between 2 and 5 millimeters), larger plastic debris, and wood and metal debris contaminating 25 beaches, and found nearly 977,000 shoes, as well as 373 thousand toothbrushes and other disposable items, including straws and plastic bags, which represented about a quarter of the total debris. Likewise, researchers discovered that 93 percent of the trash was buried up to 10 centimeters under sand.
“ Small, buried objects are a considerable risk to wildlife. To combat this problem, it is essential to have volunteers who carry out cleaning tasks and prevent new waste from reaching the sea ,” the authors warn.
According to NewsWeek, in order to emphasize the seriousness of the plastic problem, the study cites calculations from previous research, which determined that, in 2010, the ocean was contaminated with up to 14 million tons of plastics that were not properly discarded and managed.
Additionally, the authors say that almost half of the plastic created in the last six decades has been manufactured in the last 13 years, and that about 40 percent of those plastic items were discarded in the same year they were produced.
“Unfortunately, if drastic measures are not taken, the number will increase and the problem will become more serious. It has been predicted that, by 2025, the amount of waste that will reach the sea will increase tenfold,” the study warns.
According to Jennifer Lavers, lead author of the study and research scientist at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, at the University of Tasmania, Australia, "since the team only collected samples to a depth of 10 centimeters under the sand and could not reach “hot spots” of debris, it is likely that he made a conservative estimate»
Lavers explained that the population of the islands is a few hundred people, so the immense amount of plastic found on the beaches is a reflection of the way the sea moves that material.