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These tiny fish reveal our oceans’ biggest problem: plastic
About nine million tons of visible plastic trash enter oceans each year—then there’s the waste we can’t see. This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION
Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...
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Ocean plastic: How tech is being used to clean up waste problem
Trying to solve the world's ocean plastic pollution problem has been a "long and painful journey" for Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat. The 28-year-old founder of non-profit environmental ...
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Where ocean plastic actually comes from
An curved arrow pointing right. What do we get wrong when we talk about ocean plastic? A lot, it turns out. Business Insider producer Elizabeth McCauley dives into the scientific literature and ...
Durable supramolecular plastic is fully ocean-degradable and doesn't generate microplastics
Researchers led by Takuzo Aida at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) have developed a new durable plastic ...
These countries produce the most plastic pollution in our oceans – and they’re not the ones you might have guessed
While China and the US are the world’s largest plastic producers, as well as the countries with the largest emissions of ...