NYK signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chiba Institute of Technology (CIT) to use a ship to collect and analyze microplastics in oceans worldwide, in order to create a solution to marine plastic pollution. This is the world’s first initiative between a company and a research institute to carry out a survey of microplastics over a wide range of the ocean.
According to the World Economic Forum, as much as 8 million tonnes of plastic is dumped into the oceans every year. If this...
https://safety4sea.com/nyk-begins-large-scale-survey-of-ocean-microplastics/