Plastic Pollution Coastal Care. When The Mermaids Cry The Great Plastic Tide. By Claire Le Guern. Last updated in January 2. Introduction. The world population is living, working, vacationing, increasingly conglomerating along the coasts, and standing on the front row of the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic waste tide ever faced. Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form, the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the worlds oceans, yet mostly originating from where we stand the land. For more than 5. 0 years, global production and consumption of plastics have continued to rise. An estimated 3. 00 million tons of plastics were produced in 2. World Economics Forum, released at Davos in January 2. In 2. 00. 8, our global plastic consumption worldwide has been estimated at 2. Global Industry Analysts, plastic consumption is to reach 2. Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong, and relatively inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and over consumption of plastic goods. However, durable and very slow to degrade, plastic materials that are used in the production of so many products all, ultimately, become waste with staying power. Our tremendous attraction to plastic, coupled with an undeniable behavioral propensity of increasingly over consuming, discarding, littering and thus polluting, has become a combination of lethal nature. Although inhabited and remote, South Sentinel island is covered with plastic Plastic pollution and marine debris, South Sentinel Island, Bay of Bengal. Photo source SAF Coastal Care. A simple walk on any beach, anywhere, and the plastic waste spectacle is present. All over the world the statistics are ever growing, staggeringly. Tons of plastic debris which by definition are waste that can vary in size from large containers, fishing nets to microscopic plastic pellets or even particles is discarded every year, everywhere, polluting lands, rivers, coasts, beaches, and oceans. Published in the journal Science in February 2. UC Santa Barbaras National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis NCEAS, quantified the input of plastic waste from land into the ocean. The results every year, 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans. Click the button below to add the Propper ACU Army Combat Uniform Poly Cotton Battle Ripstop Trousers to your wish list. Flag Etiquette, the US Flag Code questions and answers. This bill would require that any smartphone, as defined, that is manufactured on or after July 1, 2015, and sold in California after that date, include a. You probably think you know how to keep your internet habits secret. Clearing browser history is too obvious, you say. I just do all my sketchy stuff in an. T800x600/e335824f36741168b96c1b8e2451aa0e.jpg' alt='Code Enforcement Patch Uniform' title='Code Enforcement Patch Uniform' />Its equivalent to five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world. In 2. 02. 5, the annual input is estimated to be about twice greater, or 1. So the cumulative input for 2. Lying halfway between Asia and North America, north of the Hawaiian archipelago, and surrounded by water for thousands of miles on all sides, the Midway Atoll is about as remote as a place can get. However, Midways isolation has not spared it from the great plastic tide either, receiving massive quantities of plastic debris, shot out from the North Pacific circular motion of currents gyre. Bureau Badge, Patch and Cap Insignia Review Process PRIVATE PATROL OPERATOR LICENSE BUREAU BADGE, PATCH AND CAP INSIGNIA REVIEW PROCESS. September 2015. 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Witnesses have watched in horror seabirds choosing plastic pieces, red, pink, brown and blue, because of their similarity to their own food. It is estimated that of the 1. Laysan Albatrosses which inhabit Midway, all of them have plastic in their digestive system for one third of the chicks, the plastic blockage is deadly, coining Midway Atoll as albatross graveyards by five media artists, led by photographer Chris Jordan, who recently filmed and photographed the catastrophic effects of the plastic pollution there. Albatross, victim of plastic ingestion. Photo Unknown. From the whale, sea lions, and birds to the microscopic organisms called zooplankton, plastic has been, and is, greatly affecting marine life on shore and off shore. In a 2. 00. 6 report, Plastic Debris in the Worlds Oceans, Greenpeace stated that at least 2. According to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, plastic debris kills an estimated 1. The United Nations Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution GESAMP, estimated that land based sources account for up to 8. However, most of the littered plastic waste worldwide ultimately ends up at sea. Swirled by currents, plastic litter accumulates over time at the center of major ocean vortices forming garbage patches, i. The most well known of these garbage patches is the Great North Pacific Garbage Patch, discovered and brought to media and public attention in 1. Captain Charles Moore. Yet some others large garbage patches are highly expected to be discovered elsewhere, as well see further. The plastic waste tide we are faced with is not only obvious for us to clearly see washed up on shore or bobbing at sea. Mpas Fe Exercises. Most disconcertingly, the overwhelming amount and mass of marine plastic debris is beyond visual, made of microscopic range fragmented plastic debris that cannot be just scooped out of the ocean. Slow, silent, omnipresent, ever increasing, more toxic than previously thought, the plastic pollutions reality bears sobering consequences, as recently unveiled by the report of Japanese chemist Katsuhiko Saido at the 2. National Meeting of the American Chemical Society ACS in August 2. Project Kaisei and Scripps Seaplex scientific cruise expeditions collecting seawater samples from the Great Garbage Patch. Both, the reports and expeditions uncovered new evidence of how vast and surprisingly as it was termed at the ACS meeting toxic the plastic presence in the marine environment is. Extremely littered beach in northern Norway. Photo source Bo Eide. Environmentalists have long denounced plastic as a long lasting pollutant that does not fully break down, in other terms, not biodegradable. In 2. 00. 4, a study lead by Dr Richard Thompson at the University of Plymouth, UK, reported finding great amount of plastic particles on beaches and waters in Europe, the Americas, Australia, Africa and Antarctica. They reported that small plastic pellets called mermaids tears, which are the result of industry and domestic plastic waste, have indeed spread across the worlds seas. Some plastic pellets had fragmented to particles thinner than the diameter of a human hair. But while some cannot be seen, those pieces are still there and are still plastic. They are not absorbed into the natural system, they just float around within it, and ultimately are ingested by marine animals and zooplankton Plankton that consists of tiny animals, such as rotifers, copepods, and krill, larger animals eggs and larvaes and of microorganisms once classified as animals, such as dinoflagellates and other protozoans. This plastic micro pollution, with its inherent toxicity and consequences on the food chain, had yet to be studiedDr Saidos study was the first one to look at what actually happens over the years to these tons of plastic waste floating in the worlds oceans.