video: In this video, Jenna Jambeck rinses marine debris she collected from Caleta de Samara coast, Canary Islands, in Nov. 2014. Jambeck, an assistant professor of environmental engineering at the University of Georgia, visited the area as part of an eXXpedition voyage. All debris was recorded with GPS tags through an app known as Marine Debris Tracker, which Jambeck developed with UGA's Kyle Johnsen. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 13, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, Jenna R. Jambeck at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, and colleagues was titled, 'Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean.' view more
Credit: [Credit: Malin Jacob]