Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans¶
Eriksen, M., Lebreton, L. C. M., Carson, H. S., Thiel, M., Moore, C. J., Borerro, J. C., Galgani, F., et al. (2014). Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea. PLoS ONE.
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- Ocean Gyre
- Simultaneously, the convergence prevents buoyant material that reaches the gyre interior from escaping: plastic debris, oil slicks, and floating organisms entrained at the surface are trapped and concentrated, giving rise to the well-documented garbage patches — highest in the North Pacific and North Atlantic subtropical gyres — where plastic densities orders of magnitude above surrounding waters accumulate over decades.
This sourceA global survey of floating plastic reporting accumulation zones in all five subtropical gyres and the largest particle and mass shares in the North Pacific, with long-term (years) surface transport into the gyre interiors.
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“This pattern is consistent with our model prediction that ocean margins are areas of plastic migration, while subtropical gyres are areas of accumulation.”
- Simultaneously, the convergence prevents buoyant material that reaches the gyre interior from escaping: plastic debris, oil slicks, and floating organisms entrained at the surface are trapped and concentrated, giving rise to the well-documented garbage patches — highest in the North Pacific and North Atlantic subtropical gyres — where plastic densities orders of magnitude above surrounding waters accumulate over decades.
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