Hi folks,
This id from The Ocean Cleanup folks, who are trying to develop a ways to
recapture the wast plastics in the ocean.
Here they are also studying how its use is generated and how the wast
management is performed across the planet, and how some of that gets into the
ocean.
Thought you would be interested.
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Subject: Where mismanaged plastic waste is generated
Date: January 29, 2019 at 11:42:17 AM PST
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Research update
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Today, after several revisions from peers, our global assessment of plastic
waste generation was published in the humanities and social sciences journal,
Nature Palgrave Communications. The manuscript “Future Scenarios for Global
Plastic Waste Generation and Disposal” presents a new and improved numerical
method to predict plastic waste generation based on economic and demographic
indicators.
Essentially, we created a high-resolution map for plastic waste distribution
using several open-access global datasets, including country-scale statistics
for municipal solid waste, as well as human population and gross domestic
product (GDP) distributions. For the 2015 calendar year, we estimated that
between 60 and 99 million metric tons of municipal plastic waste were
improperly disposed of and released into the environment. A fraction of this
waste will eventually be transported into the ocean. A nearly one-kilometer
resolution distribution of where this waste was generated is presented in
this interactive map
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