Sentence examples for floating waste from inspiring English sources

Turtles swallow it because, the thinking goes, they mistake the floating waste for jellyfish.

Once plastic reaches the oceans it forms floating waste, washes up on coastlines, and accumulates on sea floors.

"It seems like this July 4 weekend, the system completely broke down," said Representative Frank Pallone, a Monmouth County Democrat, who co-sponsored the measure on floating waste.

The swim will take Lecomte through the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a vast area of floating waste that scientists believe spans 1,351,000 sq miles.

Highsmith describes a "mob" at the mouth of a subway, "sucked gradually and inevitably down the stairs, like bits of floating waste down a drain," but the only drain we see onscreen is an iron sewer grate, as delicate as the rood screen of a church, that serves as a backdrop to the opening credits.

The seas are awash in floating waste, and the Indian Ocean is no exception.

Floating plastic waste has been shown to accumulate in five subtropical gyres that cover 40 percent of the world's oceans.

In addition, environmental pollution became severe, a condition infamously highlighted by a June 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga River caused by floating chemical wastes.

Photos and videos depict a giant "island" of plastic waste floating in the ocean, animals and fish are harmed by plastic waste, and several recent studies have found plastic within much of the seafood we eat.

Just take a walk down there, and you'll see all the waste floating in.

"They had their flood several years ago, and you literally had 55-gallon drums of radioactive waste floating around, including a lot of dead, radioactive rats.