OCEANATMOSPHERIC methaneEMISSION inventoriesMARINE pollutionCONFIDENCE intervalsMarine plastic pollution poses a potential threat to the ecosystem, but the sources and their magnitudes remain largely unclear. Existing bottom-up emission inventories vary among studies for two to three orders of magnitudes (OMs...
Global funding to revolutionise waste management in the world's worst polluting countries could clean up ocean plastic by 77% by 2025.
According to Wikipedia, the situation is dire, with 1.1 to 8.8 million tonnes of plastic waste entering the ocean from coastal communities annually. This has resulted in 86 million tons of plastic debris in the worldwide ocean. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated the problem, with...
Singapore /PRNewswire/ - The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (the Alliance) today announced a new partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to address global ocean plastic pollution by implementing local solutions across rapidly urbanizing cities in ...
This could mean that plastic pollution is moved more easily between oceanic gyres and between hemispheres than previously thought. According to calculations millions of tons of plastic waste in the ocean shave gone missing and are not accounted, so scientists wonder where "where all these plastics ...
SINGAPORE, June 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alliance to End Plastic Waste and USAID Partner to Address Global Ocean Plastics Pollution
The Ocean Cleanup and the United Nations Development Programme have joined forces to eliminate plastic pollution around the globe. General, Global affairs The Dutch State to support The Ocean Cleanup’s high seas activities Today, we entered into an agreement with the Netherlands relating to the dep...
possible effects, including exacerbation of climate change because of disruption of the global carbon pump, and biodiversity loss in the ocean where plastic pollution acts as additional stressor to overfishing, ongoing habitat loss caused by changes in water temperatures, nutrient supply and chemical ...
in the world’s ocean requires a good understanding of sources. It is commonly accepted that most plastic found in or near the marine environment is coming from land-based sources. Rivers particularly may play an important role in transporting mismanaged plastic waste from land into the ocean. ...
Plastic waste pollution has been identified as a serious global issue, posing environmental risks in terms of massive waste generation, ocean pollution, and increases in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Despite documented environmental impacts, it remains debatable whether the global plastic waste trade ...