Anti Plastic Pollution Essay

‘Plastic in our oceans is the most dangerous form of pollution.’ To what Extent do you Agree

More than 4.8 million metric tons of plastic is being dumped into our oceans every year, and this number is just a conservative estimate. Researchers believe the real amount could be as high as 12.7 million metric tons! This number was calculated by the UC Santa Barbara National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, and they hope to get a better understanding of where all the oceans’ trash comes from. Green Peace quoted that the ‘oceans are slowly turning into a plastic soup’. It is thought that 100,000 marine creatures die a year from plastic entanglement, most of these being birds who get their beaks or feet caught in plastic, or swallowing

His mission called simply ‘The Ocean Clean-up’ is a foundation that develops technologies to extract plastic pollution from the oceans and prevent more plastic debris from entering ocean waters. The removal of plastic debris on the open seas is still in its infancy. Some initiatives, such as Project Kaisei, have used ships with nets to catch plastics, primarily for research purposes. The Ocean Clean-up proposes a larger-scale, passive method of removing marine debris in or near the ocean gyres by means of 1–2-kilometre (0.62–1.24 mi) drifting floating systems, slowed down by a sea anchor at an approximate depth of 600 metres (0.37 mi). A solid screen underneath the floating pipe will catch and concentrate the debris not directly on the surface. These U-shaped systems will drift freely in the North Pacific gyre and concentrate plastic towards a central point where it can be extracted by support vessels for transportation back to shore. The first system is set to be deployed by mid-2018 and The Ocean Clean-up estimates to be able to clean up 50% of the debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years’ time as of full-scale deployment in