Waverley Council joins fight against microplastics
Waverley Council is helping staff and the community map dangerous litter and marine debris at our beaches and waterways. It recently invited local...
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Waverley Council is helping staff and the community map dangerous litter and marine debris at our beaches and waterways. It recently invited local...
U of T Assistant Professor Chelsea Rochman and Chris Sawicki, vice-president of infrastructure, planning and environment, at the launch of the Seabins...
People could be ingesting the equivalent of a credit card of plastic a week according to a WWF International study. The microplastics often enter our food chain through drinking water and shellfish.
The microplastics identified were dominated by fibers and fragments, according to the study.Gang
Date Time Combined flows send up to 3 billion microplastics a day into Bay of Bengal The Ganges River – with the combined flows of the Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers – could be responsible for up to 3 billion microplastic particles entering the Bay of Bengal every day, according to new research. The study represents the first investigation of microplastic abundance, characteristics and seasonal variation along the river and was conducted using samples collected by an international team of scientists as part of the National Geographic Society’s Sea to Source: Ganges expedition. Over two e...