The Oceans Are Our Garbage Cans

Around 8 1000000 tonnes of plastic is dumped into the world's oceans every unmarried year. This plastic is unsafe to marine life and, ane time it enters the nutrient chain, ultimately unsafe to the wellness of the human race.

The Ocean Cleanup organisation believes that betwixt 1.15 too 2.41 1000000 metric tons of that plastic inward the oceans originates from the world's river systems. Two thirds of it from the rivers of Asia. To assistance explicate how too where plastic ends upward inward the world's oceans the Ocean Cleanup has released an interactive map, River Plastic Emissions to the World’s Oceans.

The map shows river systems to a greater extent than or less the globe. The predicted input from each river scheme is shown at the coast using scaled circular markers. These predicted inputs are based on a model which looks at population density, waste product management, topography, hydrography, the locations of dams too the reported concentration of plastic inward rivers to a greater extent than or less the world.


You tin post away run into where all that plastic goes on Sailing Seas of Plastic, an interactive mapped visualization of the concentration of plastic inward the world's oceans. According to the map in that place are 5,250 billion pieces of plastic adrift on the seas of the world.

This point density map shows the estimated concentration of floating plastic inward the oceans. Each point on the map represents twenty kg of floating plastic. The estimations are based on the results of 24 survey expeditions (2007-2013) too on air current too body of body of water drift models.

If you lot desire you lot tin post away too overlay the sailing tracks of the 24 survey expeditions on exceed of the point map.