{"id":247196,"date":"2024-03-18T17:09:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/ocean-cleanup-101-everything-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T17:50:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:50:26","slug":"ocean-cleanup-101-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/ocean-cleanup-101-everything-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Cleanup 101: Everything You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick Key Facts<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Eight million tons of plastic reaches our oceans annually. The top plastic marine debris items are cigarette butts, food wrappers, beverage bottles and lids.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Ocean currents pull plastic into convergence zones called \u201cgyres\u201d that form patches of waste at their centers. The largest is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is twice the size of Texas.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Plastic is a major threat to aquatic life, killing 100 million marine animals per year.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Plastic waste degrades quickly in the ocean \u2014 especially along shorelines \u2014 and sheds microplastics into marine environments.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Rivers act like arteries, conveying huge amounts of waste to oceans. Just 1,000 rivers are responsible for 80% of all ocean plastic.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Various technologies are being employed to clean up ocean plastic: Seabin vacuums in litter and microplastics; Wasser 3.0 swirls hybrid silica gels in a vortex&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/ocean-cleanup-facts-ecowatch.html\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at www.ecowatch.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Key Facts Eight million tons of plastic reaches our oceans annually. The top plastic marine debris items are cigarette butts, food wrappers, beverage bottles and lids.\u00a0 Ocean currents pull plastic into convergence zones called \u201cgyres\u201d that form patches of waste at their centers. 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