Oceans of garbage: Why people are eating their own trash

This article highlights a collection of graphics that talk about pollution of the oceans and the huge amounts of garbage that is being dumped in the oceans

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21 Jun 2012, 7:13 am

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While the whole globe is enjoying its fishy favorites, very few are taking into account that there’s something else lurking in the water:

Garbage

With 70% of our Earth’s surface covered in water, and the other 30% of land being inhabited by 7 billion people, it comes as no surprise that some of the waste we generate is ending up in the water. But realistically, far more trash is flooding our oceans, rivers, and lakes than people think, and this has begun to result in murkier waters, warmer oceans, and bits of trash in the bellies of fish we eat. In a one-day clean-up of shores the whole world over, people have been shocked by the sheer volume of refuse one can collect in a day. It has become clear that continual clean-up of our world’s water is absolutely necessary—or else we’ll be eating our own trash, now and for years to come.

Here is an interesting collection of graphics highlighting the pollution in our oceans.