According to Singapore’s “Lianhe Zaobao” reported on May 6th, the results of a survey recently assembled and published by the team of the United Nations Environment Programme and Japan’s Ocean Research and Development Agency showed that plastic waste pollution has affected the deep sea, and disposable plastic products such as plastic shopping bags have reached depth Over 10,000 meters. The result was published in the journal of marine research.
The UNEP warned that 'there are worries about the adverse effects of precious deep-sea ecosystems' and proposed that while urging countries to reduce the production and consumption of disposable plastic products, they must strengthen the monitoring mechanism for marine plastic waste including deep seas.
According to a report by Kyodo News, the team used a pool of spam collected from survey video images of the deep-water 6500, a diving survey ship owned by the development agency, and analyzed the implementation of ocean depths of more than 100 meters from 1982 to 2015. 5. Data obtained from 5010 surveys counted the amount and types of observed garbage.
As a result, 3,425 pieces of rubbish were found in the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean. From the category, plastic accounted for 33% of the total, ranking first. Among them, 89% were plastic bottles, plastic shopping bags and other disposable products. The survey also observed plastic garbage. At the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean at the Mariana Trench at 10,898 meters, it was also found in the deep sea at 4,684 meters northeast of the Pacific Ocean. The survey found that the deeper the deposit is, the higher the ratio of disposable products is. The main reason is that disposable products are lighter and easier. Long-distance transportation by ocean currents. In addition, investigations also found that plastic bags entangled with creatures, or organisms attached to plastic bags.