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A recent study paints a sobering picture about the state of our oceans.
According to the paper, published last month in Environmental Science and Technology, rivers deposit up to 4 million metric tonnes of plastic into the sea -- and about 95 per cent of that comes from just 10 waterways.
Previous studies suggested about 67 per cent of plastic in the oceans came from 20 rivers. For this study, researchers out of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Science used a larger data set to reach their findings, sampling from 79 sites along 57 rivers around the world.
Eight of the 10 rivers are in Asia. [...]
- Yangtze River, Yellow Sea, Asia
- Indus River, Arabian Sea, Asia
- Yellow River (Huang He), Yellow Sea, Asia
- Hai River, Yellow Sea, Asia
- Nile, Mediterranean Sea, Africa
- Meghna/Bramaputra/Ganges, Bay of Bengal, Asia
- Pearl River (Zhujiang), South China Sea, Asia
- Amur River (Heilong Jiang), Sea of Okhotsk, Asia
- Niger River, Gulf of Guinea, Africa
- Mekong River, South China Sea, Asia
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @02:41AM (2 children)
Incinerate it.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday November 11 2017, @02:58AM
Not all plastic burn.
Many plastics burn releasing toxic fumes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Saturday November 11 2017, @02:06PM
But modern people have developed a phobia about fire. There are younger people who have never lit or managed a fire in their life. Myself, I burn an average of about 1 cwt of stuff* every week. i'd rather do that than have the council (local authority) collect it as they have become so fussy about what they will and will not take that I cannot be bothered and I burn what is burnable.
* Mostly vegetation. The paper stuff helps get it going. Also old clothes, boots etc