Chapter 8a - Transboudary Pollution - Plastic
Plastic waste has reached crisis point, with huge quantities of plastic waste around the world just discarded. Vast floating islands of plastic, called gyres can be found in five ocean locations. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the biggest of all; three times the size of France. The impacts of plastic waste has grave impacts on marine life and on humans. The solutions need to be reached at all scales but with the...