Marine Plastic Pollution Subject :Environment Section: Pollution Context: Polymer plume, Over 170 trillion plastic particles are floating in the oceans, says study More on the News: Oceans across the world are polluted by a growing plastic smog composed primarily of micro-plastics, according to a new study. An estimated 171 trillion plastic particles, weighing […]

Subject : Environment Context : The global Marine plastic Pollution footprint is estimated to be 8-10 million tonnes annually—equivalent to dumping one truck of garbage into the ocean every minute. Concept : Plastic is a synthetic organic polymer made from petroleum with properties ideally suited for a wide variety of applications, including packaging, building and […]