The global cleanup campaign for Marine plastics is launched next year
The global cleanup campaign for Marine plastics is launched next year
Discarded boxes, plastic bottles, sandwich wrappers and shopping bags on the ocean are shocking and even hopeless. The guardian reported last year that more than five trillion pieces of plastic debris were floating in the ocean. Seoul, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korea's Seoul digital BBS has issued a statement announcing the launch of a global Marine plastic waste clean-up operation in 2016.
Millions of tons of plastic have entered the ocean, affecting the lives of large Numbers of seabirds and Marine mammals, and has a significant negative impact on human health. Toxic chemicals (including polychlorinated biphenyls and DDT) are adsorbed by plastic, which can increase by a million times.
The task of cleaning up Marine plastics requires the use of ocean circulation, according to a report by physicists on June 3. Around the world, ocean circulation gathers large amounts of plastic waste, which can be accumulated into the ocean. Using a long, floating fence, as the current flows itself, the waste plastics are gradually being concentrated, far more efficient than using boats and nets to catch them.
Global Marine pilot deployment, the first stage plastic garbage clean-up operation business in Japan and South Korea between the coastal waters of spanning 2000 meters, run for at least two years, the goal is to close to the islands off the coast of horses. A series of massive task in the next five years, the Marine cleanup operations will also be in Hawaii and California deployed between 100 kilometers of cleaning system, to clear about half of the pan Pacific garbage patch.
A team of 100 scientists and engineers has confirmed that the Marine clean operating system is feasible and cheaper than traditional methods. Using traditional containers and nets to collect plastic waste from the ocean, they claim, would take about 79, 000 years and cost billions of dollars.
