Sentence examples for of plastic debris from inspiring English sources

Landman pointed to the creek bed, which was overhung with brambles and assorted bits of plastic debris.

Napkins from the fast-food restaurant stuck to the pavement, near a spreading field of plastic debris.

In the coming year, the team hopes to collect information that could stem the flow of plastic debris into the world's oceans.

(One study found that fish in the North Pacific ingest as much as 24,000 tons of plastic debris a year).

Researchers have estimated that this garbage patch may contain as much as 100 million tons of plastic debris and is perhaps twice the size of Texas, if not larger.

When the discussion period came, I asked whether the data had taken into account the great swirling gyres of plastic debris that now scar large areas of the world ocean?

The research agenda outlined would support a more detailed and comprehensive assessment of the nature of the problem of marine plastic debris, and inform the creation and implementation of effective solutions.

Given the large amount of macroplastics entering the environment, it is generally assumed that most microplastics in the environment are secondary microplastics, i.e. a result of weathering of larger plastic debris [11, 25].

This patch consists of high densities of floating plastic debris, particularly between 20° 40° N, within a few hundred kilometres of the coast and in the gyre centres, between the tropical and subarctic waters.

Decades of surveying the oceans have found only a quarter of a million metric tons of floating plastic debris worldwide, whereas in 2015, Law and collaborators estimated that between 4 and 12 million metric tons of plastics were moving from land to the coasts and oceans each year.

A working group of researchers recently estimated that just 20 countries, out of a total of 192 with coastlines, are responsible for 83% of the plastic debris put into the world's oceans.