{"id":5663,"date":"2015-02-13T07:23:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T12:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2015-02-13T07:23:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T12:23:09","slug":"sea-shame-155mn-tons-of-plastic-trash-in-world-oceans-by-2025-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5663","title":{"rendered":"Sea shame: 155mn tons of plastic trash in world oceans by 2025, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/231919-million-tons-plastic-oceans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sea shame: 155mn tons of plastic trash in world oceans by 2025, study finds<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Up to 8 million tons of trash &#8211; plastic bags, bottles and toys, just to name a few items &#8211; ends up in the world\u2019s oceans each year. The astounding figure, much higher than previous estimates, could increase tenfold in the next decade, researchers warn.<\/p>\n<p>Along with colleagues from the US and Australia, Jenna Jambeck from the University of Georgia studied the sources of ocean-bound plastic and developed models to estimate their annual contributions worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Jambeck says their estimate of 8 million metric tons going into the oceans in 2010 is equivalent to &#8220;five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given that this annual input goes up each year, the estimate for 2015 is &#8220;<em>about 9.1 million metric tons,<\/em>&#8221; she says. These findings are published in the journal Science.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea shame: 155mn tons of plastic trash in world oceans by 2025, study finds Up to 8 million tons of trash &#8211; plastic bags, bottles and toys, just to name a few items &#8211; ends up in the world\u2019s oceans each year. The astounding figure, much higher than previous estimates, could increase tenfold in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3508,1790,1857,638,3509],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ocean-pollution","tag-oceans","tag-plastics","tag-pollution","tag-university-of-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}