Pollution of natural resources and the five elements of nature is a common raging phenomenon. The Plastic that is spreading its complex pol...
Pollution of natural resources and the five elements of nature is a common raging phenomenon. The Plastic that is spreading its complex polymers into all these elements is causing major concern. We here are talking about Water pollution and especially Ocean Pollution. Thousands of tons of fishes and marine creatures are caught and shipped to the land for their meat. Oysters are exploited for their pearls and many others used commercially.
Plastic in its various forms is seen afloat or in the deepest part of the oceans. The dark oceanic bed is not an exception for pollution. Whales and other big marine creatures often fall prey to plastic forms which get ingested by them and kills them. We found many examples of animals being cut open to show us the plastic remains in their bodies.
Earth's highest point is very well known, Mount Everest. Earth's deepest point is not often talked about. It is the Mariana Trench, in the western part of Pacific Ocean. The gauge is of 11,000 metres deep. Outdoing the Mount Everest in the number, which is of 8850 metres above sea level.
This deepest part of the Earth is now heavily polluted with plastic. An example of how pervasively our world has been contaminated. Lowest place on the face of the planet is the Challenger Deep. Up to where the divers and researchers have dived down to get the truth out of the waters.
With the level of pollution encountered here, the researchers have compared it to the levels of pollution in other places. On comparing with open oceans of Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic, the Trench had the highest level of Microplastic found in it.
A Chinese researcher says, "Manmade plastics have contaminated the most remote and deepest places on the planet. The hadal zone is likely one of the largest sinks for microplastic debris on the Earth, with unknown but potentially damaging impacts on this fragile ecosystem".
The trench was likely to have been filled by the industrialised nations in East Asia, including China and Japan. Earthquakes at the trench might have shaken the debris to a much deeper level, said the researchers. Most of them were of clothing, bottles, packaging and fishing gear. Sediments had Polyester and Water samples had Polyethylene terephthalate commonly found.
"Further work to evaluate the impacts of microplastics on fragile hadal ecosystems is urgently needed".
Plastic in its various forms is seen afloat or in the deepest part of the oceans. The dark oceanic bed is not an exception for pollution. Whales and other big marine creatures often fall prey to plastic forms which get ingested by them and kills them. We found many examples of animals being cut open to show us the plastic remains in their bodies.
Earth's highest point is very well known, Mount Everest. Earth's deepest point is not often talked about. It is the Mariana Trench, in the western part of Pacific Ocean. The gauge is of 11,000 metres deep. Outdoing the Mount Everest in the number, which is of 8850 metres above sea level.
This deepest part of the Earth is now heavily polluted with plastic. An example of how pervasively our world has been contaminated. Lowest place on the face of the planet is the Challenger Deep. Up to where the divers and researchers have dived down to get the truth out of the waters.
With the level of pollution encountered here, the researchers have compared it to the levels of pollution in other places. On comparing with open oceans of Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic, the Trench had the highest level of Microplastic found in it.
A Chinese researcher says, "Manmade plastics have contaminated the most remote and deepest places on the planet. The hadal zone is likely one of the largest sinks for microplastic debris on the Earth, with unknown but potentially damaging impacts on this fragile ecosystem".
The trench was likely to have been filled by the industrialised nations in East Asia, including China and Japan. Earthquakes at the trench might have shaken the debris to a much deeper level, said the researchers. Most of them were of clothing, bottles, packaging and fishing gear. Sediments had Polyester and Water samples had Polyethylene terephthalate commonly found.
"Further work to evaluate the impacts of microplastics on fragile hadal ecosystems is urgently needed".
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