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...
