The True Scale of Plastic Pollution

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ABOUT THIS VIDEO: Sources, music, assumptions, 3D model licensing and software used for this video listed at: https://luiscalejo.notion.site/Visualizing-the-Scale-of-Ocean-Plastic-Pollution-deb9a20579a649e1b1a9b44fb2097ea0?pvs=4 This video explaine the scale of ocean plastic pollution with data. ⌛️Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 01:00 - How much plastic? 05:05 - Where? 06:33 - Impact 08:22 - Solutions 10:49 - Final Thoughts 11:01 - Credits Corrections: 05:07 - The 171 trillion particles number does NOT include nanoplastics. Only macro and microplastics. The total number of particles if we included nanoplastics would be higher. 05:09 - "There's the famous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 3 times the size of France" - Scientists now steer away from using size comparisons to countries because the boundaries of the accumulation zones in the gyres are not defined. They extend from one continent to another with varying concentrations 06:29 - "Over 80% of the plastic emitted to the ocean comes from Asia" - This statement suggests that Asia is responsible for the majority of plastic in the oceans. This is, in fact, very debated because South East Asian countries have been recipients of the global trade of waste. While there's plenty of plastic leaking from SE Asia, much of it actually originally came from the US and Europe. ABOUT THIS CHANNEL: Memeable Data is a Data Journalism channel that explores global topics through data and presents them to a broad audience through visual storytelling. Created by Luís Calejo, a data scientist and animator. For data storytelling or animation projects, please contact me via the email listed in the channel details. #datajournalism #datascience #dataanalysis #python #blender