December 14 reported that the British media said that according to the German Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research published study showed that 90% of the Earth's oceans in the plastic through the 10 rivers to enter, and these 10 rivers are all located in India, Africa and China.
The Nile and Niger rivers in Africa, China's Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Haihe River and the Lancang River (known as the Mekong River after flowing into the Indochina Peninsula), as well as the Ganges and Indus in India, are reported to the Daily Telegraph website on December 12 for The environment is responsible for catastrophic pollution as these rivers are among the longest in the world, with a large population on both sides of the river.
According to Christian Schmidt, head of the study, "Reducing the amount of plastic garbage collected at these river basins is a huge success, and in order to improve the environment, waste management must be strengthened to raise public awareness of the issue. '
Reported that each year through the Yangtze River into the ocean of plastic waste reached 1.5 million tons, only 18 tons of the Thames, compared to be considered trivial.This study involved 79 sampling points of 57 rivers, compared with June A second article, published in the journal Nature in the UK, went one step further, claiming that two-thirds of plastic waste entering the ocean comes from 20 rivers.
Schmidt and his colleagues are now studying how long it will take to get to the ocean as plastic trash enters the river, while environmentalists are looking for new ways to deal with the problem, based in the Dutch Ocean Clean organizations are proposing a giant drift-off barrier to block large pieces of plastic trash, and another idea - a marine trash can that collects 1.5 kilos of garbage a day - is being tested in Portsmouth.
The report said that although plastic waste from the sea in the United Kingdom was negligible, Brendan Goldley, a professor of conservation sciences at the University of Exeter, warned that there must be no slack in the slightest slack: "Many trash on British beaches Both marine activities from Britain and the poor management of rubbish in the UK are not all from far away places and can not be entirely attributed to others, but a small part of the river caused most of the marine pollution is true, may be more than 10 There may be 20 rivers.
Reported that the problem of plastic garbage pollution recently in the David Attenborough BBC documentary "Blue Planet II" is very prominent, environmentalists explained that whales are often entangled in plastic bags, and sometimes even because of Swallow plastic garbage and death.
The United Nations has unanimously agreed on a resolution recently calling for major actions to "prevent and substantially reduce all kinds of marine pollution by 2025".