A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required

As global awareness, science, and policy interventions for plastic escalate, institutions around the world are seeking preventative strategies. Central to this is the need for precise global time series of plastic pollution with which we can assess whether implemented policies are effective, but at...

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Published in:PloS one Vol. 18; no. 3; p. e0281596
Main Authors: Eriksen, Marcus, Cowger, Win, Erdle, Lisa M., Coffin, Scott, Villarrubia-Gómez, Patricia, Moore, Charles J., Carpenter, Edward J., Day, Robert H., Thiel, Martin, Wilcox, Chris
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Published: United States Public Library of Science 08.03.2023
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Abstract As global awareness, science, and policy interventions for plastic escalate, institutions around the world are seeking preventative strategies. Central to this is the need for precise global time series of plastic pollution with which we can assess whether implemented policies are effective, but at present we lack these data. To address this need, we used previously published and new data on floating ocean plastics (n = 11,777 stations) to create a global time-series that estimates the average counts and mass of small plastics in the ocean surface layer from 1979 to 2019. Today’s global abundance is estimated at approximately 82–358 trillion plastic particles weighing 1.1–4.9 million tonnes. We observed no clear detectable trend until 1990, a fluctuating but stagnant trend from then until 2005, and a rapid increase until the present. This observed acceleration of plastic densities in the world’s oceans, also reported for beaches around the globe, demands urgent international policy interventions.
AbstractList As global awareness, science, and policy interventions for plastic escalate, institutions around the world are seeking preventative strategies. Central to this is the need for precise global time series of plastic pollution with which we can assess whether implemented policies are effective, but at present we lack these data. To address this need, we used previously published and new data on floating ocean plastics (n = 11,777 stations) to create a global time-series that estimates the average counts and mass of small plastics in the ocean surface layer from 1979 to 2019. Today's global abundance is estimated at approximately 82-358 trillion plastic particles weighing 1.1-4.9 million tonnes. We observed no clear detectable trend until 1990, a fluctuating but stagnant trend from then until 2005, and a rapid increase until the present. This observed acceleration of plastic densities in the world's oceans, also reported for beaches around the globe, demands urgent international policy interventions.As global awareness, science, and policy interventions for plastic escalate, institutions around the world are seeking preventative strategies. Central to this is the need for precise global time series of plastic pollution with which we can assess whether implemented policies are effective, but at present we lack these data. To address this need, we used previously published and new data on floating ocean plastics (n = 11,777 stations) to create a global time-series that estimates the average counts and mass of small plastics in the ocean surface layer from 1979 to 2019. Today's global abundance is estimated at approximately 82-358 trillion plastic particles weighing 1.1-4.9 million tonnes. We observed no clear detectable trend until 1990, a fluctuating but stagnant trend from then until 2005, and a rapid increase until the present. This observed acceleration of plastic densities in the world's oceans, also reported for beaches around the globe, demands urgent international policy interventions.
As global awareness, science, and policy interventions for plastic escalate, institutions around the world are seeking preventative strategies. Central to this is the need for precise global time series of plastic pollution with which we can assess whether implemented policies are effective, but at present we lack these data. To address this need, we used previously published and new data on floating ocean plastics (n = 11,777 stations) to create a global time-series that estimates the average counts and mass of small plastics in the ocean surface layer from 1979 to 2019. Today’s global abundance is estimated at approximately 82–358 trillion plastic particles weighing 1.1–4.9 million tonnes. We observed no clear detectable trend until 1990, a fluctuating but stagnant trend from then until 2005, and a rapid increase until the present. This observed acceleration of plastic densities in the world’s oceans, also reported for beaches around the globe, demands urgent international policy interventions.
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Author Thiel, Martin
Villarrubia-Gómez, Patricia
Erdle, Lisa M.
Cowger, Win
Eriksen, Marcus
Day, Robert H.
Wilcox, Chris
Coffin, Scott
Carpenter, Edward J.
Moore, Charles J.
AuthorAffiliation The University of Auckland - City Campus: University of Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
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9 Facultad Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN), Coquimbo, Chile
10 Center for Ecology and Sustainable Management of Oceanic Islands (ESMOI), Coquimbo, Chile
12 Minderoo Foundation, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
2 University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America
11 Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA), Coquimbo, Chile
1 5 Gyres Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
3 Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research, Long Beach, California, United States of America
7 EOS Center, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, California, United States of America
4 California State Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento, California, United States of America
5 Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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