Trash Vortex by Danielle Smith-Llera

Author:Danielle Smith-Llera [Smith-Llera, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: nonfiction; Compass Point Books; Captured History Science; pollution; plastic; oceans; environment; microplastics; gyres; science; History / United States / 20th Century; People & Places / United States / General;9780756557454; 9780756557492; 9780756557577; 9780756557539
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2017-12-18T00:00:00+00:00

Boys searched through the trash on the Indonesian coast.

Chapter Four

NEW CYCLES

Thirteen years after Charles Moore’s first voyage to the North Pacific gyre, another catamaran sailed across the same trash vortex. Plastiki was built from 12,500 used water bottles. The bottle craft traveled through the gyre not as trash, but as part of a headline-grabbing expedition with a message. “Plastic is not the enemy,” said environmentalist and expedition leader David de Rothschild. “But it’s our understanding of disposal and reuse that’s to blame.”50 Of the 9 billion tons (8 billion metric tons) of plastic produced since 1950, just 2 billion tons (1.8 metric tons) are still in use, a 2017 study found. That means the rest of the plastic litters Earth as trash.

A large study of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans and the Mediterranean Sea in 2014 confirmed that a great deal of this plastic pollution is in the ocean. “This survey has shown that human litter is present in all marine habitats, from beaches to the most remote and deepest parts of the oceans. Most of the deep sea remains unexplored by humans and these are our first visits to many of these sites, but we were shocked to find that our rubbish has got there before us,”51 said marine biologist Kerry Howell of England’s Plymouth University.

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