Sentence examples for floating rubbish from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, in this part of the bay, the water looked and smelled much cleaner and there was little floating rubbish beyond a couple of plastic bottles.

In between Canal Street and Deansgate is a stretch of the canal where the locks are often heavily built up with floating rubbish.

Following a further aerial survey through the heart of the patch on Sunday, the Ocean Cleanup aims to tackle the problem through a gigantic V-shaped boom, which would use sea currents to funnel floating rubbish into a cone.

Behind it a small coastal cove acts like a floating rubbish dump, collecting brightly coloured detritus from the murky Atlantic and distributing it in piles in stubbly black rock pools on the beach.

Perth surfers Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski have created the floating Seabin rubbish bin for marinas and ports, which moves with the tide, collecting about 1.5kg of floating rubbish each day.

The snake-like ocean barrier is made out of vulcanised rubber and works by harnessing sea currents to passively funnel floating rubbish – often just millimetres wide – into a cone.

Mr Moussawi took us to a small pond with rubbish floating in it; in the play, it represents the Euphrates to which Imam Abbas went to get water for the thirsty women and children of their besieged camp.

"It floods regularly, and we risk rubbish floating straight back to Rome". A descendant of Pope Urban VIII, who commissioned works in Rome by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Barberini owns a castle in the nearby picture postcard hamlet of San Vittorino.

The problem is so great that there is now a floating pool of rubbish in the Pacific, greater in extent than any other detectable man-made impact on the environment.

That means the final resting place of plastic at sea may not be in floating patches of rubbish but in the sediment by way of numerous marine creatures, with possibly toxic effects in the food chain.Some schemes have been proposed to try to clean up the plastic waste floating in the sea.

I had never seen the sea in winter - it was quite a shock, grey and dirty, with rubbish floating in patches of oil and a biting wind blowing.