Deep-diving whales use echolocation in the darkness of the deep sea to hunt, but when the sea is full of plastic, this ability can kill...
Text: Lena Scherman
plastics in the sea
Plastics has been a revolutionary good product in many areas, but equally bad when it pollutes both our nature and our human body.
Today, microplastics are found pretty much everywhere on our planet. In the air, in our food, in our bodies, in the sea.
The degradation process takes different lengths of time for different plastics – it takes 600 years for a fishing line to degrade, 450 years for a PET bottle and between 10 and 400 years for a plastic bag. But different chemicals are also released into the water during the degradation process, slightly differently depending on the type of plastic.
The problems of plastic in the ocean are many, not just one.
Below we’ve collected articles and reports we’ve done that are in some way related to plastics in the sea.
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They have just arrived in what they believe and hope is paradise. Raja Ampat is located in the centre of what is known as the...
Reportage: Johan Candert, Helena Fredriksson
Photo: Johan Candert, Tobias Dahlin, Göran Ehlmé
The island paradise of Raja Ampat is one of the last outposts of the Indonesian archipelago. A remote group of islands with lush white beaches...
Text och Foto: Louise Candert
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At 7 o'clock in the morning on the first Monday after 20 September, it's lobster premiere in Sweden - every year. A festive moment for...
Reportage and UW-Photo: Tobias Dahlin
They are everywhere, in the sea and on land, in animals and plants and in the human body. Twenty years since the term ‘microplastics’ was...
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Tobias Dahlin
Over 15 million tonnes of plastic have leaked into the ocean since the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee sessions began in 2022. The fourth session (INC-4) marked...
Text: Bridget Ferguson reporting for DSR Queensland Australia
Cover photo: Tobias Dahlin
Photo: WWF Canada
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