The Global Plastic Watch team took Sky News on a virtual tour of the site before it launched, showing the hundreds of plastic waste sites scattered round the world.
Sprawling dumps of plastic waste can now be mapped from space thanks to a new tool using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence, in what is believed to be a world first.
The free, public tool, designed to help stop plastic from flowing into the ocean, has been"applauded" by the United Nations and is already being used by the government of Indonesia, the fifth highest contributor to ocean plastics. Every minute of every day, the equivalent of one truckload of plastic trash enters the world's oceans, killing an estimated 100,000 marine mammals each year.Mr Laurier called plastic pollution"one of the greatest environmental crises of our time," posing"tremendous environmental and human health issues".
"Identifying the waste sites in the satellite imagery is totally novel and something that is very hard to do at all, [even] on a small scale," Caleb Kruse, GPW's lead data scientist, said on a video call from Berkeley, California. Mr Kruse's team taught artificial intelligence to comb satellite imagery from the European Space Agency for"give-away" features of plastic sites.
"The crazy thing is, we find sites like this all over," Mr Kruse said, as he flashed up image after image of waste sites on his screen.The interactive website has identified hundreds of waste sites across 26 countries, which account for more than 80% of the plastic in the world's waterways.
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