We Need a Data-Rich Picture of What's Killing the Planet

WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More

• Episode: We Need a Data-Rich Picture of What's Killing the Planet
• Website: WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More
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• Duration: 00:04:49
• Published: 2019-06-25 13:12

You’ve probably heard about the plague of plastic trash in the oceans. You’ve seen YouTube videos of sea turtles with drinking straws in their noses, or whales with stomachs full of marine litter. But how much plastic is out there? Where is it coming from? We don’t really know, because we haven’t measured it. “There’s a paucity of data,” says Marcus Eriksen, cofounder of the 5 Gyres Institute, a nonprofit focused on ending plastic pollution.