Much of the plastic also washes ashore. Depending on the location, between a third and all of the plastic washed into the sea is stranded. Image: Wikimedia commons
Much of the plastic also washes ashore. Depending on the location, between a third and all of the plastic washed into the sea is stranded. Image: Wikimedia commons - A study conducted at the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern provides new insights into the pollution of the world's oceans with plastic waste. The modelling shows that most of the plastic does not end up in the open ocean, but beaches or drifts in the water near the coast. The pollution of the world's oceans with plastic waste is one of the major environmental problems of our time. However, very little is known about how much plastic is distributed globally in the ocean. Models based on ocean currents have so far suggested that the plastic mainly collects in large ocean gyres.
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