Estuaries and coastlines capture most plastic before it gets out to sea, giving us a chance to stop ocean pollution
- Written by Melissa Bowen, Associate Professor in Physical Oceanography, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Getty ImagesIf you ask someone where plastic ends up, they will usually say the ocean. It’s not a surprising answer because we have known since the 1970s that plastic is accumulating in the subtropical oceans, far from land.
Most people have heard of the “great garbage patch”, a region of the North Pacific between Hawaii and...
