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Good graphic on webpage : right
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http://www.ibtimes.com/china-india-us-among-worlds-worst-marine-polluters-country-country-breakdown-plastics-1813476
Every year, between five and 13 million more tons of plastics wind up in the world’s oceans and a whopping 80 percent of that waste pours in from just 20 countries. China is the most egregious offender, discarding nearly 30 percent of the world’s ocean-bound plastics, according to a new country-by-country analysis of plastic trash in the sea published Thursday by Science.
No matter where it comes from, these plastics kill thousands of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals each year. Discarded bottles and packaging containers can also leak chemicals such as bisphenol A, which could be consumed by fish and eventually cause health problems for consumers. The economic cost of such pollution runs high, too -- communities in California spend at least $428 million a year combating litter and clearing trash from their beaches, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. These problems are likely to only get worse unless something changes, the authors of the newly published analysis say.
In the new study, a group of engineers and environmental scientists define how much plastic trash makes its way into the oceans each year and where all of that trash is coming from. Though researchers have long known that the oceans were filling with plastics, they did not have a good estimate for how much more plastic poured in each year until now. That's something that has prevented them from knowing just how bad the situation might get if the world continues to use and discard plastics at the current rate while the global population rises.
By using a computer model, the team estimated that in 2010, about eight million tons of trash – or five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline – were dumped into the world’s waters. The team also broke down the plastic waste generated by people from 192 countries who were living within 30 miles of a coast. Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Sri Lanka rank among the top five polluters along with China. The United States ranks twentieth from the top.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/china-india-us-among-worlds-worst-marine-polluters-country-country-breakdown-plastics-1813476
Every year, between five and 13 million more tons of plastics wind up in the world’s oceans and a whopping 80 percent of that waste pours in from just 20 countries. China is the most egregious offender, discarding nearly 30 percent of the world’s ocean-bound plastics, according to a new country-by-country analysis of plastic trash in the sea published Thursday by Science.
No matter where it comes from, these plastics kill thousands of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals each year. Discarded bottles and packaging containers can also leak chemicals such as bisphenol A, which could be consumed by fish and eventually cause health problems for consumers. The economic cost of such pollution runs high, too -- communities in California spend at least $428 million a year combating litter and clearing trash from their beaches, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. These problems are likely to only get worse unless something changes, the authors of the newly published analysis say.
In the new study, a group of engineers and environmental scientists define how much plastic trash makes its way into the oceans each year and where all of that trash is coming from. Though researchers have long known that the oceans were filling with plastics, they did not have a good estimate for how much more plastic poured in each year until now. That's something that has prevented them from knowing just how bad the situation might get if the world continues to use and discard plastics at the current rate while the global population rises.
By using a computer model, the team estimated that in 2010, about eight million tons of trash – or five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline – were dumped into the world’s waters. The team also broke down the plastic waste generated by people from 192 countries who were living within 30 miles of a coast. Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Sri Lanka rank among the top five polluters along with China. The United States ranks twentieth from the top.
Science museum ..... Dad & son obviously did not get his sarcasm
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