There's no 'garbage patch' in the Southern Indian Ocean, so where does all the rubbish go?
- Written by Mirjam van der Mheen, PhD Candidate in Oceanography, University of Western Australia
Plastic waste on a remote beach in Sri Lanka.Author provided
Great areas of our rubbish are known to form in parts of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. But no such “garbage patch” has been found in the Southern Indian Ocean.
Our research – published recently in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans – looked at why...