Sentences with phrase «plastic debris»

There are currently 150 million tonnes of plastic debris floating in the world's oceans.

Plastic debris in the marine environment is widely documented, but the quantity of plastic entering the ocean from waste generated on land is unknown.

Cleaning up local beaches is critical to preventing plastic debris from entering the ecosystems and polluting waterways.

Over 100,000 birds and marine life die each year, due to an encounter with plastic debris, much of it plastic bags.

But it also has a long history of partnering with conservation organizations to find solutions to marine plastic debris.

It is clear that marine animals frequently encounter plastic debris, and that ingestion is a widespread phenomenon among all groups of marine organisms.

Because plastic debris provide a unique opportunity to examine a complex mixture of contaminants, our past and current work focuses on plastic.

To measure progress we monitor plastic debris deposition rates at isolated shore stations which is far more accurate than oceanic sampling.

To measure progress we monitor plastic debris deposition rates at isolated shore stations which is far more accurate than oceanic sampling.

The issue of plastic debris drifting in the middle of the ocean lacks the benefit of visibility to quickly educate the public, leaving persistent misconceptions to drive problem - solving efforts.

At a global scale, several studies identified large - scale convergence zones of plastic debris due to the major ocean currents.

I snapped a shot and moved forward, scanning the ground and trying to comprehend the mix of rocks, weeds, bones and brightly colored plastic debris.

She carries a plastic bag in her hand to carry the bits and pieces of plastic debris she picks up.

As the flotsam circulates in the ocean, it collides with the Hawaii Islands depositing tons of plastic debris on its once pristine shores.

Scientists are now finding plastic debris in all Arctic marine habitats.

The spread of everything from large plastic debris such as fishing gear which dolphins can become entangled with, to fragments smaller than 5 mm in diameter known as microplastics, has ecological, social and economics costs.

A French fishermen brought the whale back in his nets, saying that it was already dead from ingesting plastic debris when it was caught in the nets.

The first stage in restoring the ring reef around the entire island was started in 2008 and protecting its lovely beaches without concrete, dead coral walls, or plastic mesh bags pumped full of sand, which invariably disintegrate, rip, and leave plastic debris littering the sand.

Walking single file, most of us were trying our best to absorb the fact that there is almost as much plastic debris as pebbles across the old runway that is slowly being reclaimed by nature.

The contents of this dead albatross chick's stomach include plastic debris scavenged from the ocean.

The Arctic Ocean is a final resting place for plastic debris dumped into the North Atlantic Ocean, new research suggests.

When plastic debris meets coral, the authors say, the likelihood of disease increases from 4 to 89 percent — a 20-fold change.

This structure was called the Necklace, because it was intended to be the first stage in restoring the ring reef around the entire island and protecting its lovely beaches without concrete, dead coral walls, or plastic mesh bags pumped full of sand, which invariably disintegrate, rip, and leave plastic debris littering the sand.

Among the new offerings include Washed Ashore — a collection ofmassive and colorful art sculptures completely made of ocean plastic debris; a new aquatic presentation featuring the amazing biology and adaptation of dolphins, beluga whales and more; the world premiere of PBS Kids» Splash and Bubbles 4 - D Experience; a redesigned gallery habitat highlighting the wonder and beauty of the world's kelp forests and more.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch contains far more plastic debris than scientists thought, and it's growing exponentially.

Other pollutants like plastic debris, plutonium, and residue from pesticides are now prevalent in English soils.

Plastic debris pollutes oceanic habitats from pole to pole: it is found in the open ocean, on shorelines of even the most remote islands and in the deep sea.

«Our study shows that plastic debris increases the susceptibility of reef - building corals to disease,» the authors write in the paper published Thursday in Science.

We conclude that the chemical signature plastic debris acquires in the photic zone can induce foraging behaviours in anchovy schools.

Yet Michigan, perhaps the most important state in America when it comes to protecting the Great Lakes, has decided to make it impossible for anyone to do anything to prevent plastic debris from entering the lakes.

In the laundry, synthetic clothing sheds microscopic plastic fibers (shown in the inset along with other plastic debris) that make their way through sewage treatment systems and into oceans.

In the 40 years since, there were no rigorous estimates of the amount and origin of plastic debris making its way into the marine environment until Jambeck's current study.

However, central surface waters of the oceans may not be the final destination of plastic debris since, as indicated by the study performed by the Malaspina Expedition, large amounts of microplastics could be passing to the marine food chain and the ocean floor.

Plastic debris releases chemical additives and plasticizers into the ocean.

«Plastic debris acts like a marine motorhome for microbes,» said the study's lead author, Joleah Lamb, a postdoctoral research fellow at Cornell.

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.

Although plastic debris is associated with some of the most persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the European Union, the debris is considered non-hazardous by policy makers.

These pellets — the raw material for plastic products — accumulate oily contaminants such as PCBs on their surfaces (SN: 2/3/01, p. 79: Available to subscribers at Plastic debris picks up ocean toxics).

For example, plastic debris proliferate world ocean even the deepest sea.

Ocean currents carry plastic debris from all over the world towards the Arctic, but we can not blame it all on others.

For example, the project will help reduce seal and seabird mortality by tackling plastic debris and «ghost fishing», when fishing fear is lost at sea and continues to affect marine life.

Mark Eakin, the coordinator of NOAA's Coral Reef Watch who collaborates with several of the authors but was uninvolved with this paper, said plastic debris on reefs «has been a major problem for quite some time.»

Water from the Atlantic entering the Arctic Ocean through the Fram Strait contains plastic debris, as well as other pollutants such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and heavy metals.

Add that to a changing climate which is causing damage to human constructions and releasing decade - old entrapped plastic debris from melting sea ice.

The report, which appeared in the journal Science on Thursday, is the most ambitious effort yet to estimate how much plastic debris ends up in the sea.

Instead of going after plastic debris with vessels and nets — which would take many thousands of years and billions of dollars to complete — The Ocean Cleanup is designing a fleet of extremely long floating screens that will remain in the water to act like an artificial coastline, enabling the ocean to concentrate the plastic using its own currents.