Every year, 4 to 12 million tons of plastic waste enters the oceans, mostly across rivers.
It is believed that only one percent of the sea plastic contingent is visible to the eye. The exact location of the remaining 99 percent is unknown.
Every creature found at a depth of 10,890 meters in the Pacific brought at least some kind of artificial materials into its organism.
Scientists from the University of Newcastle made a shocking discovery while exploring the Challenger Deep Valley in the Mariana Trench, known as the deepest point on Earth. The team first found plastic in the stomachs of sea creatures at the bottom of the ocean, which means that there is no longer a part of the world's oceans that has not received human waste.
Scientists assume that in the seas currently finds about 300 million tons plastic waste, and that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish ...
Really disturbing! !!!
FOR THAT REASON, SCIENTISTS HAVE CREATED A GENETICALLY MODIFIED BACTERA WHICH EATING PLASTIC
There is currently a huge amount of plastic in the oceans that drastically endangers the lives of all sea creatures. Classic methods of cleaning and recycling simply do not do this job well enough because plastic is accumulating more and more, which calls into question the entire survival of our pallet.
That is why scientists from America created a special bacterium, which is programmed to feed only on PET packaging.
This bacterium eats only PET plastic, which means that it is safe for all animals, as well as for other plastic things that make ships and other things that may be on the sea surface. The bacterium cleans the surface of sea water 6 times faster than any other method, so scientists hope that this will bring a revolution and help us clean our waters.
The bacterium is still in the testing phase, but it is planned to be released in a controlled manner to the most polluted parts of the world in order to see how quickly it will clean the water from the plastic. If it turns out well, then it is possible that we will have this bacterium in all waters, which will be our protector.
Let's be responsible and conscientious, let's not throw waste into rivers and seas!
The following facts are also astonishing:
It may seem harmless to us that an ordinary bag can harm someone, but it can - and a lot. There are more and more cases of dead animals that swallowed plastic bags and died of starvation, because real food could not pass to the intestines because of the bags. One example is a whale that was found on the coast of Norway in February 2017. 30 bags were pulled out of its stomach. In 2016, several dead whales (the largest teeth with teeth) were found on the coast of Germany. The officially determined cause of death is heart failure. It is strange that these were young individuals from 10 to 15 years of age and in excellent health. Aphids feed mainly on fish, squid and crabs. But plastic parts of a car and a 15-meter-long fishing net were also found in their stomachs. However, one of the obvious examples is a whale found on the coast of Greece in 2011, whose stomach was extremely bloated because it ate over 100 bags. His stomach was so full he could burst, and he was still hungry.
There are even more turtles that mix a floating bag with a jellyfish.
I hope that these frightening facts will change the consciousness of irresponsible people, and will start protect our waters and the living world in them!
It's terrible what people are doing to themselves!