How much plastic is in the worlds oceans?

in #ocean4 years ago

"6,085,545.7 Tons of plastic waste dumped in oceans"
https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/planet-earth/state-of-the-planet/world-waste-facts

"The study, published in Friday’s edition of the journal Science, estimates that China’s heavily coastal population contributes 1.3 million to 3.5 million metric tons of plastic to the world’s oceans each year, largely due to mismanaged waste.

Eight of the top 10 contributors were in Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia and Bangladesh, according to the study, which estimated that 4.8 million to 12.7 million metric tons of plastic wound up in the world’s oceans in 2010."
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-tons-of-plastic-trash-in-oceans-20150213-story.html

"About 8 million metric tons of plastic are thrown into the ocean annually[1]. Of those, 236,000 tons are microplastics[2] – tiny pieces of broken-down plastic smaller than your little fingernail

FACT #2

There are five massive patches of plastic in the oceans around the world. These huge concentrations of plastic debris cover large swaths of the ocean; the one between California and Hawaii is the size of the state of Texas[3]

FACT #3

Every minute, one garbage truck of plastic is dumped into our oceans[4]"
https://www.earthday.org/fact-sheet-plastics-in-the-ocean/

"There are 5.3 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing nearly 270,000 tons, on the surface of the world's oceans."
https://www.newsweek.com/there-are-270000-tons-plastic-garbage-floating-atop-worlds-oceans-290886

"according to scientists who released research on Thursday estimating that a staggering 8 million metric tones of plastic pollution enter the oceans each year from the world's 192 coastal countries based on 2010 data."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-s-oceans-clogged-by-millions-of-tons-of-plastic-trash/

"Although the exact amount of plastic in the oceans cannot be accurately quantified, it is estimated that 150 million metric tons of plastic circulate the world's oceans. Furthermore, an additional 8 million metric tons are added annually. It is estimated that 250 metric tonnes of plastic will be in the oceans by 2030, and by 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish."
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/how-much-plastic-is-in-the-ocean.html

Eight Million Tons of Plastic Dumped in Ocean Every Year
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/2/150212-ocean-debris-plastic-garbage-patches-science/

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