It is a webpage that allows you to obtain data about the pollution of the oceans.
Ever wondered where does go the plastic that you lay the sea? Seems disappears, right? Wrong! It is dragged by the ocean currents, imagine, how far? Into Central America, Mexico and astonishingly the north of Galicia. It is true. Each time a Portuguese throws a bag or a bottle, or any other object of plastic to the ocean, the South Americans and Galician's are finding our garbage in their coastal areas. How? Through Adrift.au, this allows you in a few seconds to find out where goes all the debris. It is an amusing and very simple webpage to use, which was inspired by a research on ocean circulation by scientist Erik Van Sebille and his delightful book "Moby Duck ". In this site you can explore were all kind of objects drift across the ocean, with the help of rubber duckies, and where each of them may end up from the sea to your beach. Adrift uses a scientific method that is based on the observation of tracks through the oceanic buoys of the Program Global Drifter and other scientific research in this field. In this site you can see how far the debris traveled thru the ocean after the Fukushima disaster, for example, or even where does come from some of the plastic washed ashore on the beaches in Portugal. Another of the curious features of this site indicates it is the "journey " of that same garbage at sea over a maximum period of 10 years, however , there are zones of the planet where you cannot track the debris, due to lack of rigorous scientific data on this matter in those same areas. Go, test it and see the effect of one small gesture that can easily be avoided, its impact on the global marine ecosystem. Makes you think.
For more information on this topic, just put the yellow duckling at a sea closest to you, not on earth and he will read through the website I made available at the end of this word.
