Plastic Pollutiion

[Doodoo]

"the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is three times the size of France and is the world's biggest ocean waste repository, with 1.8 billion pieces of floating plastic which kill thousands of marine animals each year."

https://www.iberdrola.com/sustainabilit ... -continent

[Bandung_Dero]

Going back as far as 1995 I had contracts on Christmas Island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. There was a beach, Gretel, only about 200 metres wide bordered by cliffs on 3 sides.
It was always knee deep in rubber thongs (flip flops) and the rubber sheets they were pressed from - very few other plastic items. Covered the stairs down the cliffs into the surf.
Government authorities assumed the mess came from Indonesia but never proven. Didn't appeared anywhere else around the island?

Big pollution 30 years ago --- a tragic nightmare now!

[tamada]

The main contractors in the bit of the oil industry I float around in have signed up to the "Ghost Net Initiative" where we recover, log and send ashore any floating debris that we encounter. This varies from location to location but the vast majority of drifting junk is related to the fishing industry. The biggest "returns" can vary widely from country to country, deep water to near shore and within a few hundred miles of each other, depending on currents and gyres. However, the bulk of it all is from fishing, both commercial and artisanal or sustenance fishing .

[Doodoo]

Most of the plastic in our oceans comes from land-based sources: by weight, 70% to 80% is plastic that is transported from land to the sea via rivers or coastlines.1 The other 20% to 30% comes from marine sources such as fishing nets, lines, ropes, and abandoned vessels.

https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics