We're dumping 130,000(e) million tonnes of Timeplast in the ocean to evaluate the effect on marine life.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are over 332,519,000 cubic miles of water on the planet, out of this vast volume, the National Geophysical Data Center estimates that 321,003,271 cubic miles is in the oceans.

On the other hand, a renowned group of scientists published a paper in the Journal Science in 2015 estimating the total amount of plastic waste entering the oceans, which summed to a maximum of 12.7 million tonnes.

To replicate these numbers on a smaller scale, we've prepared an oceanic water marine aquarium, with a living marine ecosystem, including different fish and coral species, and we're dumping the equivalent of the maximum amount of plastic estimated to enter the oceans in 2015 multiplied by 10,000, in order for us to study what would happen to marine life if that enormous mass of Timeplast waste were to enter the oceans. In our case it'll be a 47gr sample in 26 gallons of a close-loop marine ecosystem. We'll make a time-lapse video and we will post it in an upcoming update.

Stay tuned!