[EcoDharma] 170 Trillion Pieces of Plastic in the Ocean

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  • Naiko
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    • Aug 2019
    • 842
    #1

    [EcoDharma] 170 Trillion Pieces of Plastic in the Ocean

    Hi all,

    From today’s Washington Post:

    “There are 21,000 pieces of plastic in the ocean for each person on Earth.
    That’s more than 170 trillion pieces of plastic, according to a new study. The amount is doubling about every six years.
    Why that’s important: It means the scale of the problem is larger than scientists thought and gives more urgency to U.N. talks on a global treaty.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/08/ocean-plastics-pollution-study/


    A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required
    https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281596
    As global awareness, science, and policy interventions for plastic escalate, institutions around the world are seeking preventative strategies. Central to this is the need for precise global time series of plastic pollution with which we can assess whether implemented policies are effective, but at present we lack these data. To address this need, we used previously published and new data on floating ocean plastics (n = 11,777 stations) to create a global time-series that estimates the average counts and mass of small plastics in the ocean surface layer from 1979 to 2019. Today’s global abundance is estimated at approximately 82–358 trillion plastic particles weighing 1.1–4.9 million tonnes. We observed no clear detectable trend until 1990, a fluctuating but stagnant trend from then until 2005, and a rapid increase until the present. This observed acceleration of plastic densities in the world’s oceans, also reported for beaches around the globe, demands urgent international policy interventions.



    Gassho,
    Naiko
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    • aprapti
      Member
      • Jun 2017
      • 889
      #2
      Originally posted by Naiko
      Hi all,

      From today’s Washington Post:

      “There are 21,000 pieces of plastic in the ocean for each person on Earth.
      That’s more than 170 trillion pieces of plastic, according to a new study. The amount is doubling about every six years.
      Why that’s important: It means the scale of the problem is larger than scientists thought and gives more urgency to U.N. talks on a global treaty.”



      aprapti


      sat

      hobo kore dojo / 歩歩是道場 / step, step, there is my place of practice
      Aprāpti (अप्राप्ति) non-attainment

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