Daily Archives

Most of the international data on ocean plastic waste available today came from a study conducted by the Canadian Jenna Jambeck in 2010.
Dr Jambeck proposes an estimation of spills, by calculating the difference between the production of plastic waste by the coastal populations (the one living in less than 50 miles off the coast or near the rivers) and the amounts of waste managed by these same populations (Recycled, used or stored). The difference between these two figures is the missmanaged waste which is in a big part spills at sea as demonstrated by the Dr. Jambeck.

It’s from this estimation that we can today tame this map of countries whose coastal populations produce more waste .

Today, Patrick Fabre, our referent ” OcéaNOplasticien ” shows us with this map the amount of waste produced by those countries (192 of them), and their immediate consequence on the coastal sea areas (degraded).

We see that the Southern East of Asia is the most generator of these ocean plastic waste.
This is what we consider as priority area of action. It is here, where the concentration of solid waste (before their dispersion and reduction in the oceanic gyres) that our action will be the most pertinent and the more effective.
But the map shows us also that other concentrated areas are identified, particularly in Africa or in the Mediterranean sea.
This map really shows us how many areas where the manta can takes action, and how it’s important to act in the sea with several boats pending a longer term solution to act in the source of pollution.