Ocean plastic pollution: Surface clean-up technology will not solve plastic problem, finds study
Analysing the impact of the currently used devices that collect waste from the ocean surface, a team of researchers in their new study has explained it won’t solve the plastic pollution problems. However, river barriers could be more effective, and - though they have no impact on plastic already in the oceans - they could reduce pollution “significantly” if used in tandem with surface clean-up technology. These devices are also relatively expensive to make and maintain per unit of plastic removed,” said Dr Sonke Hohn, of Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research. As most plastic enters the oceans via rivers, the authors say a “complete halt” of such pollution entering the ocean using river barriers - especially in key polluting rivers - could prevent most of the pollution they otherwise predict over the next three decades.
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