The amount of plastic trash in the ocean doesn't seem to be growing, and environmentalists are puzzled.
... from San Francisco Tuesday to the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," a massive vortex of floating plastic trash estimated by some researchers to be twice the size ...
Scientists sail off to study plastic trash in the Pacific and ways of recovering it.
Twice the size of Texas, the remote Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch is home to much of the world's plastic trash, and now a scientific expedition has documented the vast "dump" for the first time.
... with the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) and said that the BPA probably originated from a surprising source: Hard plastic trash discarded in the oceans and the epoxy ...
Upcycling: Waste plastics transform into potentially useful carbon microspheres.
... across the Pacific spotlighted the serious problem of plastic trash at sea—and showed that solutions are possible by simply thinking smarter. Pacific Ocean - Plastic - Plastiki - David Mayer de Rothschild ...
... soup" of plastic trash in the North Atlantic hasn't gotten thicker in two decades, says a new study ...
... lot of plastic trash floating in the Pacific Ocean, but claims that the "Great Garbage Patch" between California ... be prohibitively costly to remove the plastic, we need to focus our efforts on preventing more trash from fouling our oceans ...
Hypothesis: plastic trash hits poor people and poor countries "first and worst," with consequences ... pollution from the perspective of social justice. Plastic trash, he argues, hits poor people ...
... our highways each year to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive gyre of floating plastic trash. But the most devastating pollutants are the nitrogen and phosphorus ...
Long-lasting oceanic garbage threatens marine life
... litter and the architect of a new "solution" called the Plastic Disclosure Project, in which companies report and reduce ... noticing".Visceral manifestations of this are enormous vortices of plastic trash in the world's oceans; Woodring's team ...
Wind may be pushing most of the trash beneath the surface, scientists discover.
... amount of human-generated trash, mostly broken down bits of plastic the size of a fingernail floating ... researchers found that sea skaters have exploited the influx of plastic garbage as new surfaces for their eggs. This has led ...
