Sailing Seas of Plastic - Interactive Data Visualisation. About the Study M. Eriksen, L.C.M. Lebreton, H.S. Carson, M. Plastic pollution is ubiquitous throughout the marine environment, yet estimates of the global abundance and weight of floating plastics have lacked data, particularly from the Southern Hemisphere and remote regions. Using an oceanographic model of debris dispersal calibrated by our data, and correcting for wind-driven vertical mixing, we estimate a minimum of 5.25 trillion particles weighing 268,940 tons. Read the publication.
Www2.vlaanderen.be/ruimtelijk/grup/00050/00068_00001/data/212_00068_00001_d_3tnk_01.pdf. Earth wind map. Green Vegetation. Ocean Observatories Initiative. Quizzen. Aarde.