Sentences with phrase «pieces of plastic debris»

Their work, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, did find millions of pieces of plastic debris floating in five large subtropical gyres in the world's oceans.

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Stella the Seahorse, a sculpture made entirely of plastic marine debris removed from Pacific Coast beaches, is part of the collection of art made entirely of trash that offers Shedd visitors a powerful, visual reality of the proliferation of plastic pollution in the world's waterways through representations of marine animals using thousands of pieces of plastic in every color of the rainbow.

There, floating debris — from microscopic particles of plastic to large pieces like ropes and fishing nets — is carried by currents and accumulates.

In total, 28 per cent of the fish sampled contained the debris, with one having 21 pieces of plastic inside it.

Plastic debris degrades into ever - smaller pieces, which means that a wider range of organisms can ingest this material, and particles of microplastic are now the most abundant form of solid - waste pollution on our planet.

Toys on their last legs not only create debris — bits of fabric and string or pieces of plastic all over the floor — they can also become a choking hazard for your pet.

I haven't worn shoes since I'd arrived and I had 4 dives every day, so full of amazing creatures and spotting a hairy octopus and seeing a blue ring has made it the even better!I also organised a Project Aware Dive Against Debris, to clean a couple of dive sites and it has been a success, everyone got involved, the reception help me printing some information about the time it takes for plastic and other items to decompose and all the guests were very participative collecting every piece of plastic that had no life on it!

The majority of the debris comprises microplastics that are created by the process of photodegradation (in the ocean, the sun breaks down the plastics into ever smaller pieces).

Bring a bag, there's always something along the way to bring home, anything from a beautiful piece of drift plastic to a wayward piece of trash or debris.

According to the One World One Ocean Campaign, 50 - 80 % of marine debris is plastic, which breaks down into smaller pieces, but never fully goes away.

Even after hours of cleaning up debris, they saw that each wave brought in more plastic, in pieces so small it is impossible to clear them all off the sand:

Behind each and every piece of littered plastic debris is a human face.

The plastic debris in the study is of the more obvious kind, as the pieces in the stomachs of fish were large enough to be identified.

Plastic waste is one of the most significant sources of marine pollution: According to UNEP, plastic accounts for 90 % of all debris floating in the oceans - with every square mile containing close to 46,000 Plastic waste is one of the most significant sources of marine pollution: According to UNEP, plastic accounts for 90 % of all debris floating in the oceans - with every square mile containing close to 46,000 plastic accounts for 90 % of all debris floating in the oceans - with every square mile containing close to 46,000 pieces.

The Gossamer Orbit Lowering Device, or GOLD system, uses an ultra-thin balloon (thinner than a plastic sandwich bag), which is inflated with gas to the size of a football field and then attached to large pieces of space debris.