The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 16 times larger than we thought, according to the journal Scientific Reports — Quartz
▻https://qz.com/1234953/we-underestimated-the-size-of-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-by-16-times
▻https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/toc-gpgp-modelled-mass-concentrations.jpg?quality=80&strip=a
et #Chris_Jordan (Midway, c’était une de mes toutes premières interactions ici, il y a 6 ans…)
About 46% of the total mass of the patch is made up of discarded fishing gear. The rest is trillions of pieces consumer plastic, swept off land and into the sea.
Voir aussi :
– pour les questions à propos du devenir des plastiques dans la chaîne alimentaire marine : ▻https://qz.com/228748/99-of-the-plastic-we-throw-in-the-ocean-has-mysteriously-disappeared
– pour l’augmentation exponentielle de la production mondiale de plastiques : ▻https://www.theatlas.com/charts/BkAVFsjrb
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWgfOND2y68
Rich Horner shot this footage 20km from Bali
