{"id":3656,"date":"2014-12-10T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T19:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2014-12-11T19:17:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T00:17:58","slug":"thousand-tons-of-plastic-floating-in-the-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/thousand-tons-of-plastic-floating-in-the-oceans\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousand tons of plastic floating in the oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3657\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/8687410631_1d611b2b64_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3657\" class=\"wp-image-3657\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/8687410631_1d611b2b64_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/8687410631_1d611b2b64_z.jpg 640w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/8687410631_1d611b2b64_z-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of pieces of garbage, like these tangled ropes and nets, are polluting oceans across the globe. (Photo credit: Lindsey Hoshaw via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sjguerrisiportfolio\/8687410631\/in\/photolist-eeFfvV-g1KXpN-bGj66K-gwmN7H-8uVyaN-gwmAC2-g1KNQJ-eeFfxa-mDXgFT-g1L4mK-g1Le9R-g1EDcJ-99boSD-gwmFi5-g1L3vt-gwm16W-2FuLy-eiC5pG-dNchjS-amv5yS-8BQbGu-dfsAP9-8ZQTRs-qnN22w-8WZwTp-8uSuYZ-9Ka2vZ-8uVxX9-bDZ99E-7Sq7qR-8bL5mL-f9vYn6-jDeC3-99JSdd-ajcLLB-kx4FXe-9xA8o5-9xAiew-9xA3fW-9xybvn-9xzBCj-bp1ngF-5PgKPK-2TbYAk-5YuikR-8yxUPx-5MSxZf-5MNddr-5MSwcd-4ZJ3yC\">Steven Guerrisi, flickr.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At least 269,000 tons of plastic pollution could be floating in the world\u2019s oceans, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers collected small, floating plastic particles across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean as well as off the coast of Australia, in the Bay of Bengal, and the Mediterranean Sea between 2007 and 2013. They then used that data to build a worldwide model of ocean plastic distribution.<\/p>\n<p>The research team\u00a0also found that plastic pollution can easily travel as the density of plastic pollutants is similar in the southern and northern hemisphere oceans. This was an unexpected finding given that the northern hemisphere produces more plastic pollution than the southern hemisphere<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0111913\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>PLOS ONE\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>December 10<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Marcus Eriksen, Director of Research at\u00a0the 5 Gyres Institute, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 269,000 tons of plastic pollution could be floating in the world\u2019s oceans, according to a new study. Researchers collected small, floating plastic particles across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean as well as off the coast of Australia, in the Bay of Bengal, and the Mediterranean Sea between 2007 and 2013. They then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,1445,215,225,1286],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-oceanography","tag-pollution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/8687410631_1d611b2b64_z.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-WY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}