The UOcean Project® Microplastic Research

The ocean is the worlds largest carbon sink and keeps our planet cool. Micro plastics are stopping the process from happening and devastating our global habitats.

  • CARBON

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  • PLANKTON

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  • COPEPODS

    Few people have ever heard of marine Copepods, they are tiny marine insects of around 1mm in size. They are the most numerous animal on the planet, and collectively have more mass than all terrestrial animals combined, they represent the greatest Carbon Bank, and our best hope to save the planet from climate change.There are 5 billion tonnes of Copepods in the world's oceans, this is equivalent to 17 million 747 jumbo jets, and if you laid the jets nose to tail, they would go around the Earth 31 times. Every night they migrate from a depth of 400m to the surface to feed on algae. The mass migration moves more water than the moon and the tides, yet this has not been factored into the climate change model.The copepods defecate 30 times more carbon than humanity inputs from burning fossil fuels. Around 6 % reaches the abyss where it is locked out. This is your real carbon bank where 3 billion tonnes are deposited every year.Yet we have killed more than 50% of the copepods from pollution over the last 70 years because they love to eat micro-plastic loaded with toxic chemicals. In 25 years time 80% will be gone. If we are going to have any chance of beating climate change, we need to stop the pollution and save the oceans.

The ocean is the worlds largest carbon sink

  • Plastic

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  • COPEPODS

    Few people have ever heard of marine Copepods, they are tiny marine insects of around 1mm in size. They are the most numerous animal on the planet, and collectively have more mass than all terrestrial animals combined, they represent the greatest Carbon Bank, and our best hope to save the planet from climate change.There are 5 billion tonnes of Copepods in the world's oceans, this is equivalent to 17 million 747 jumbo jets, and if you laid the jets nose to tail, they would go around the Earth 31 times. Every night they migrate from a depth of 400m to the surface to feed on algae. The mass migration moves more water than the moon and the tides, yet this has not been factored into the climate change model.The copepods defecate 30 times more carbon than humanity inputs from burning fossil fuels. Around 6 % reaches the abyss where it is locked out. This is your real carbon bank where 3 billion tonnes are deposited every year.Yet we have killed more than 50% of the copepods from pollution over the last 70 years because they love to eat micro-plastic loaded with toxic chemicals. In 25 years time 80% will be gone. If we are going to have any chance of beating climate change, we need to stop the pollution and save the oceans.