Scientists Found Plastic Wastes In The Deepest Pit Of The World

Scientists Found Plastic Wastes In The Deepest Pit Of The World A recent study revealed that a plastic bag, like the kind given away at grocery stores, is now the deepest known piece of plastic trash, found at a depth of 10,975 meters (36,000 feet) inside the mariana trench. scientists found it by looking through the deep sea debris database, a collection of photos and videos taken from 5,010 dives over the. Victor vescovo journeyed 10,927 meters (35,853 feet) to the bottom of the challenger deep , the southern end of the pacific ocean’s mariana trench, as part of a mission to chart the world’s.

Scientists Found Plastic Wastes In The Deepest Pit Of The World A new study analysing over 30 years' worth of data on human made trash found in the deepest parts of the ocean reveals almost 3,500 pieces of plastic and other debris have been discovered littering these remote, fragile ecosystems. if proof were ever needed that there are no more untouched places left on our poor, polluted planet, we now have. Scientists found a plastic bag almost 11 kilometers deep in the mariana trench in the pacific ocean while combing through a database of photos from thousands of submersible dives made over the past 30 years. one third of all debris in the database, created to provide a record of trash in the ocean depths, were plastics, mostly single use products. Scientists have known about the bag since may 1998, when a robotic deep sea submersible spotted it while surveying the bottom of the trench. but a recent study on deep sea plastic pollution gave. A study released in october 2018 documented what is still the deepest known piece of plastic—a flimsy shopping bag—found at a depth of 36,000 feet inside the mariana trench.