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Cleaning the seas with blue diesel

Cleaning the seas with blue diesel mate Rial witness news & views news & views Henderson Island, a coral limestone worsens the problem for places like atoll in the Pitcairn Island group, Henderson Island, it potentially helps halfway between Chile and New clean-up operations by sequestering Zealand in the South Pacific, is the rubbish so that it is not dispersed the epitome of the desert island: uniformly. The largest such region uninhabited by humans but with is in the middle of the North Pacific abundant wildlife, it has beaches of between California and Japan, white sand fringed by coconut palms. sometimes dubbed the Great Pacific But one thing now ruins this idyll: the Garbage Patch: an area covering beaches are strewn with an estimated 1.6 million km , three times the size Philip Ball 17 tonnes or more of plastic debris, of France. Already, ships are dispatched one of the highest densities in the into the gyre to scoop up the plastic world. In one estimate, around 100 waste and transport it back to port. As ever, the devil is in the details: or so plastic items are washed up Typically, the waste is concentrated in particular, could enough plastics every day on any 10-metre http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Materials Springer Journals

Cleaning the seas with blue diesel

Nature Materials , Volume 20 (12) – Dec 1, 2021

Cleaning the seas with blue diesel

Abstract

mate Rial witness news & views news & views Henderson Island, a coral limestone worsens the problem for places like atoll in the Pitcairn Island group, Henderson Island, it potentially helps halfway between Chile and New clean-up operations by sequestering Zealand in the South Pacific, is the rubbish so that it is not dispersed the epitome of the desert island: uniformly. The largest such region uninhabited by humans but with is in the middle of the North Pacific abundant wildlife, it...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © Springer Nature Limited 2021
ISSN
1476-1122
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1476-4660
DOI
10.1038/s41563-021-01164-3
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Abstract

mate Rial witness news & views news & views Henderson Island, a coral limestone worsens the problem for places like atoll in the Pitcairn Island group, Henderson Island, it potentially helps halfway between Chile and New clean-up operations by sequestering Zealand in the South Pacific, is the rubbish so that it is not dispersed the epitome of the desert island: uniformly. The largest such region uninhabited by humans but with is in the middle of the North Pacific abundant wildlife, it has beaches of between California and Japan, white sand fringed by coconut palms. sometimes dubbed the Great Pacific But one thing now ruins this idyll: the Garbage Patch: an area covering beaches are strewn with an estimated 1.6 million km , three times the size Philip Ball 17 tonnes or more of plastic debris, of France. Already, ships are dispatched one of the highest densities in the into the gyre to scoop up the plastic world. In one estimate, around 100 waste and transport it back to port. As ever, the devil is in the details: or so plastic items are washed up Typically, the waste is concentrated in particular, could enough plastics every day on any 10-metre

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Nature MaterialsSpringer Journals

Published: Dec 1, 2021

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