"Reducing plastic loads by 50 percent in the 10 top-ranked rivers would reduce the total river-based load to the sea by 45 percent," the researchers write.
Plastic is an integral component of modern society, but this "miracle material" has a downside.
It's estimated that 1 billion tonnes of plastic have been discarded since the 1950s and research suggests it will take up to 500 years for some forms to biodegrade.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, only 8% of the total plastic waste generated in 2010 in the U.S. actually made it to recycling plants. The other 92% was shuffled off to landfills or found its way into the water.
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Anybody up for a romantic yacht tour in South Africa? Straws made illegal in California and the price on plastic bags in Swedish stores will now cost a dollar after a newly adopted law. The Western World is saving the world's oceans yaaaay
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Finger waving climate change alarmist John Legend, wife Chrissy Teigen had a very important reason for using a private jet..
Valentine’s Day dinner Remember the Bloomberg wing of the Democrats will have no end to the sacrifices you need to make for them
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WHERE's GRETA???? She goes to all these Rich places that make her famous but doesn't show up in South Africa, or China or Vietnam or India? HUGE dumpers of garbage into the waterways!
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Boyan Slat - clearing oceanshttp://bit.ly/33Z71qaFelix Finkbeiner - 15B treeshttp://bit.ly/31KPMrjDavid Vaughan - coral reefshttp://bit.ly/368V9npMorgan Vague - Plastic-Eating Bacteriahttp://bit.ly/2LY6dvgFionn Ferreira - microplastics
The real environmental crisis's/insects dying-dead zones-aquifers drying up-plastics in the ocean: April 2019