Tag: sea
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Is it true that 80 percent of the plastic in the oceans comes from land, and 20 percent from the sea?
This claim is uncertain. We could find no credible scientific source to back it up. The percentage of land- and sea-based plastic inputs into the ocean has not yet been calculated on a global level and therefore remains unknown. Scientific studies show that the ratio of land- versus ocean-based plastics can differ widely depending on…
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Is it true that 90 percent of the plastic in the oceans comes from 10 rivers in Asia and Africa?
You may read this claim frequently, but it is probably false. Such claims misquote the results of research published in 2017. In that study, scientists estimated how much plastic enters the sea from rivers around the world. Ten of these river systems carried most of the plastic, but plastic also reaches the sea in other…
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Is it true that by 2050 there could be more plastic than fish in the ocean?
This claim is highly speculative, and probably false. We do not know how much plastic is currently in the ocean, and there is no scientific estimate of how much plastic will be in the ocean by 2050. It is also unclear how many fish will inhabit the ocean by 2050.