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What do you think about the discovery of plastic waste at a depth of 10,927 meters in the Mariana Trench?
First: This incident reflects the high level of human pollution of the environment. According to data released by the United Nations, about 100 million tons of human-generated plastic waste flows into the sea every year, and a large number of marine organisms die.
Second: the most well-known marine plastic litter is the Pacific Garbage Patch, an "island" of plastic waste covering more than 1.6 million square kilometers. The largest number of plastic particles (94% of the total) are plastic pellets.
These particles, which are less than 5 millimeters in diameter, can damage marine life and ecosystems, and these plastic particles end up at the top of the food chain – the human body.
Thirdly: Currently, about 100 million tons of plastic waste have been found in the ocean. Although previous studies have shown that the Mariana Trench has been contaminated with plastic, this time, for the first time, plastic bags have been found at a depth of about 11,000 meters.
Fourth: I hope that people will raise their awareness of environmental protection and stop dumping garbage into the sea. It is also hoped that countries will strengthen the protection of the ocean from the legal level, because "the ocean is not a garbage collection pond".
Plastic waste in the world's oceans has reached flood levels, and scientists can even find large amounts of microplastic particles in the internal organs of deep-sea mammals such as whales.
Fifth: Currently, an estimated 100 million tons of plastic waste have been found in the world's oceans. From 2021, the European Union will ban the sale of plastic daily necessities such as plastic straws, balloon sticks and cotton swabs on the market.
However, the most important thing to change is still people's behavioural awareness. For humanity, we must act now to reduce the use of plastic in our daily lives, stop dumping garbage into the sea, and actively seek alternatives and innovative solutions to plastic materials. The World Economic Forum's report shows that unless people change their lifestyles, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050.
In the future, many plastic products used in people's daily lives may be replaced by natural materials. But the most important change to finally solve the marine litter crisis is people's behavioural awareness. Technology will also evolve as consumers become more concerned about sustainable alternatives to plastic.
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This phenomenon shows that human beings have a very deep degree of pollution to the natural environment, which has brought many negative impacts, and the problem of environmental pollution is very serious.
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I think it's a bit strange that nature has become so polluted that it has gotten to this point.
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I was shocked, I didn't expect that the place so deep had been polluted by humans.
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What you may not know is that there is a growing garbage island in the Pacific Ocean north of the equator, which has grown to 60 times the size of Beijing and about three times the size of France, and that's just a part. So, in order to solve this world-class problem, someone has come up with a bold idea: if we throw all the world's garbage into the Mariana Trench, the deepest trench on earth, will we be able to solve the current problem of excess garbage?
Because the idea is not unrealistic, but genuinely well-founded. The Mariana Trench is a huge fissure deep in the ocean floor, and its deepest point is 11 kilometers below the sea level, so the trench is so large that it could theoretically store the garbage we have produced for thousands of years. And because of the huge pressure of the trench, it is simply a natural garbage pressure opportunity.
After the garbage is thrown in, it can be automatically compressed without manual processing, which greatly saves the subsequent garbage disposal work. There are two ways to dispose of waste, which are buried in the ground and incineration. But both landfills and waste incineration release toxins that contaminate our resources such as soil, air and groundwater, causing long-term harm to our environment and safety.
So a lot of people think that burying garbage in the Maria Trench is really a new method to try.
Let's first understand how much garbage there is in the world. By calculation, we produce more than 2 billion tonnes of garbage every year, which means that even if we filled up the world's garbage, it could be stored for thousands of years. You may not know how terrible the lifting of the trench is, but the pressure per square meter is equivalent to the weight of 2,000 elephants.
Once there is no problem with storage, all we need to think about is how to go down. There are two ways to do this, one is to use a submarine to transport the garbage, but this will undoubtedly be very costly. Moreover, the submarine can only accommodate one person, which is obviously unrealistic.
Another option is to use pipelines for transportation, as is the case with waste pipes on construction sites, but only if the pipes can withstand the pressure under the water, and then plan the path and the pressure from the trenches at different depths. Some have also questioned this, because no matter where we dump garbage in the ocean, it will also cause pollution. Instead of finding a new place to dump garbage, we should concentrate on solving the problem of garbage generation and starting the problem.
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There will be a lot of environmental pollution, and then various environmental problems will appear, which will exacerbate the greenhouse effect or global warming.
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The land area of the world will increase, but all the life in the ocean will die, and so many life under the sea will be swallowed up by garbage.
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There will be very serious marine pollution, and all this garbage will sink to the bottom of the sea, and all the garbage will be able to fill it in.
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The discovery of plastic waste in the Mariana Trench at a depth of 10,000 meters shows that the problem of marine pollution in front of my door is already very serious. This garbage may be poured into the ocean for landfill planned by the relevant departments, and there are also some unscrupulous businesses or individual groups, such as the ocean to carry out malicious sewage discharge and garbage, and the garbage disposed of on the street, may also enter the ocean, these plastic products can enter the drainage network or rivers and lakes through wind and rain, and finally flow into the sea.
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In the beginning, plastic waste was floating on the surface of the sea, but some fish accidentally swallowed it and brought it to the bottom of the sea, where it was excreted through excrement.
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Plastic debris in the Mariana Trench is the kind of garbage that people have been washing up in the trench after a long period of ocean current movement.
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An American explorer dived to a depth of more than 10,000 meters, breaking the record for the deepest human dive, and in the deepest part of the seabed, he found garbage made by humans.
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I am not surprised that plastic waste was found at a depth of 10,927 meters in the Mariana Trench, and humans have been doing whatever they want to destroy the oceans. The ocean's revenge for human predation can be said to be on the verge of triggering. Oceanographers in 1957-1958 during the International Geophysical Union, proposed to study "the use of the depths of the ocean to pile up radioactive waste".
The students remembered that this was not a secret mission, it was a public claim that was proud of it at the time.
Because in the past 10 years, the dumping of radioactive waste has been in full swing. The United States itself has been doing this since 1946 in the Faralong Islands, about 50 kilometers off the coast of California. The United States is not alone, and Russia, Japan, New Zealand, and almost all European countries are among the countries that can do it.
These buckets of radioactive waste are no different from rusty barrels behind gas stations or outside factories. If you think they will be well sealed, you are definitely misunderstood, because, when dumped into the sea, if the barrels do not sink, it is common practice to punch them with bullets and lead the sea water in. By the time the dumping was stopped in the 90s of the 20th century, the United States alone had dumped tens of thousands of barrels of this kind of garbage in about 50 locations in the ocean, and about 50,000 barrels were registered in the waters of the Faralong Islands.
At the end of the 15th century, explorer John Cabot discovered an unbelievable number of cod on sandbanks in eastern North America. By 1960, the number of cod spawning in the North Atlantic had been reduced to 1.6 million tonnes. By 1990, that number had dropped to 22,000 tons.
From a business point of view, cod is extinct. In 1992, cod fishing was completely banned on the sandbank, but according to an article in the journal Nature, there was no sign of a recovery in stocks until 2002. The crisis that has begun to unfold is that we are pretending not to see the consequences of human plundering of the oceans.
The problem of marine pollution is becoming more and more serious, and mankind should pay attention to it in time.
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According to the data released by the United Nations, about 100 million tons of plastic waste generated by humans have been found to flow into the ocean, and a large number of marine life will die every year.
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Because the more people who travel and the more people go out to play, then the garbage will increase. After that, it will drift to the low current.
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Because nowadays people don't pay attention to protecting the environment and litter. That's why there's so much plastic waste.
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There is a lot of garbage in the ocean, so it floats.
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According to the geographically well-known theories of continental drift and plate motion, many land masses will become oceans due to plate movements or climatic and environmental reasons.
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Because people litter, we need to protect the environment now.
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Because it is very likely that it is an evolution of land, it is normal to have plastic waste.
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Because there is a lot of garbage in the ocean, it will naturally enter the trench slowly.
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This shows that the current polluted environment is too serious, and the garbage has drifted so deep.
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