The secrets being revealed by ocean garbage patches Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images Much of the rubbish that ends up in the sea stays close to the shore where it is then swept back onto the land The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an enormous agglomeration of plastic waste floating in the world's largest ocean, but it's not the only one and …
Every year, an estimated eight million tons of plastic is dumped into our oceans, threatening the lives of fish, seabirds and marine mammals. The new study estimates that Neptune balls sieve over 867 million pieces of plastic from the oceans every year. A new study suggests that the key to clearing our oceans of plastic may lie with seagrass HOW …
Underwater seagrass in coastal areas appear to trap bits of plastic in natural bundles of fibre known as “Neptune balls,” researchers said Thursday. With no help from humans, the swaying plants — anchored to shallow seabeds — may collect nearly 900 million plastic items in the Mediterranean alone every year, they reported in the journal Scientific Reports. “We show that …
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