“Every minute, the equivalent of one full garbage truck of plastic trash is dumped in the sea. That is 1440 trucks per 24 hours and 8 BILLION kilos per year.”
Over time, plastic falls apart into small fragments, transforming all the water around us into a big soup full of microplastics. These particles enter the marine food chain because plankton and other small animals mistake them for food.
The Plastic Soup Surfer, Merijn Tinga, will sup (stand up paddle) the entire river Rhine from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea at Hoek van Holland in June, on a board made of littered plastic bottles and caps: Source2sea. ...
The "International Conference on Microplastic Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea" will be held in Hotel de Rezidenza in Capri, Italy. The event will be focussed on one of the most current and dangerous sources of ocean pollution: microplastics. Read more...
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