Plastic in rivers major source of ocean pollution: study

[rangerrebew]

Plastic in rivers major source of ocean pollution: study
June 8, 2017
 
River Kvirila at Sachkhere, Georgia. Credit: Wikipedia

Plastic that is dumped in rivers and then ends up in the world's oceans is one of the major sources of marine pollution, a new study said this week, with Asian waterways the main culprits.

Researchers at The Ocean Cleanup—a Dutch foundation developing new technologies for ridding the oceans of plastic—say rivers carry an estimated 1.15-2.41 million tonnes of plastic into the sea every year, an amount that need between 48,000 to over 100,000 dump trucks to carry it away.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-plastic-rivers-major-source-ocean.html#jCp

[truth_seeker]

The countries have agreed to try doing something about the plastic.

India, China, Philippines, etc.

[dfwgator]

"The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: The Earth plus Plastic. The Earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the Earth. The Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

Plastic… a_____!”

-George Carlin