Animals’ Perception of Plastic Waste
Overconsumption of items stored in plastic packaging is inevitable for the moment due to the fact that very slight per cent of the industries are actually concerned about the environment more than their profit. About 26 million tons of plastic is thrown in the ocean every year. Some of it degrades into small pieces and get washed away by The North Pacific Gyre a.k.a. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Sadly, bigger in size plastic objects get consumed by marine animals of all type. Waste reduction is possible and is strongly required at the moments because if things continue that way, we’ll never see the world as it is at the moment – it’s face will be completely changed in several years due to the waste pollution. Many rubbish removal companies are concerned about effective waste clearance as this is one of the most successful ways to prevent further disasters caused to nature. See for yourself and reconsider the way you’ll threat your plastic rubbish the next time you hold one in your hands.
Entangled young seal
This net is primarily used by fishermen. Sadly, they don’t aways have control over it’s disposal as it may break while in water.
Entangled bullshark
As you can see, the diver is probably investigating the net to find solution how to free the fish from it. (I hope it won’t eat him afterwards ).
A seabird going for a glass bottle
It must have given up on it as it is too tough and huge for its mouth but who knows …
This one did it.
Apparently, this little plastic bite looks delicious to it, until it actually dies because of doing this mistake. High percent of the dead seabirds are found with stomachs filled with plastic waste.
Seatirtle’s menu
Jellyfish is one of the most favorite food to the sea turtles. Unfortunately, plastic bags resemble jellyfish perfectly and overall sea turtled maybe consume more plastic than jellyfish. Or if not, that’s just temporary, if the plastic pollutions continue, it’ll become a real statistics.
Robert Starling
20-Year-Old Engineer’s Idea To Make Ocean Clean Itself Will Be Launched Next Year
Boyan Slat is a 20 year old with an idea on how to clean plastic trash from our oceans. The Ocean Cleanup initiative wants to reduce the amount of trash in the oceans by employing floating barriers that are moored to the seabed. They would collect lighter-than-water plastic trash with the help of the ocean currents and without harming sea life.
The pilot, which will be deployed near Tsushima Island (located between Japan and Korea) in the first quarter of 2016, will test the durability and viability of the project. It will be only 2000 meters long, a far cry from the planned 100 kilometers length, but it will still be the longest floating structure on Earth.
Cleaning up plastic garbage in ocean, like the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is impractical with ships. However, the 100km stationary cleanup array could remove 42% of the Garbage Patch over 10 years, 70,320,000kg in total.
More info: theoceancleanup.com | Facebook | Twitter (h/t: boredpanda )
When it’s deployed in 2016, the 2,000m floating line will become the longest floating structure in the world.
This concept will test out 20-year-old Boyan Slat’s plan to rid the oceans of floating plastic waste.
This plan would use ocean currents to skim the plastic trash without harming the sea life.
The eventual Ocean Cleanup Array would be a 100km long and able to collect 70,320,000kg of plastic waste over 10 years
Estimated clean up cost would be roughly 4.53 euros (5.04 USD) per kilogram – 3% of the cost of other potential clean-up methods
Martynas Klimas
Writes like a mad dervish, rolls to dodge responsibility, might have bitten the Moon once.
