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However, the largest amount of plastic waste does not necessarily translate to the biggest producer of plastic pollution. Data from 2019 on countries’ shares of global plastic waste in the oceans put The Philippines in the top spot, with more than 36% of global input, followed by India (12....
1The amount of plastic pollution in the oceans is rapidly increasing. This is problematic, as at least 700 kinds of ocean animals—including sharks, whales, seabirds and turtles—can become caught in the stuff or mistake it for a tasty snack.While we know that some ocean animals seem to ca...
Marine pollutionGlobal environmental governanceNational implementationCoherence and coordinationScience adviceMarine plastic pollution has emerged as a global threat to our oceans. Although several instruments have been developed at the international level, the global governance of marine plastic pollution is ...
Concern over plastic pollution of the marine environment is severe. The mass-imbalance between the plastic litter supplied to and observed in the ocean currently suggests a missing sink. However, here we show that the ocean interior conceals high loads o
But most of the volunteers said they drank from plastic bottles and also ate seafood that could include plastic from ocean pollution. In fact, plastic is everywhere around us. Every year, about 8 million tons of plastic waste goes into the oceans. There, sunlight and waves break the plastic...
根据文章第一段“The amount of plastic pollution in the oceans is rapidly increasing. This is problematic, as at least 700 species of sea animals may mistake it for a tasty snack. (海洋中塑料污染的数量正在迅速增加。这是有问题的,因为至少700种海洋动物可能会把它误认为美味的小吃。)”可知,塑料...
However, due to human activity, our oceans face severe threats. Climate change is causing harm to coral reefs, overfishing is depleting fish stocks, and agricultural nutrient pollution is contributing to the formation of dead zones. In addition, more than 12 million tonnes of plastic finds its ...
While many research projects and surveys contribute to knowledge ofplastic pollutionin the oceans, the largest and more continuous are a variety of community- and volunteer-based programs (e.g., “citizen science” or “community science;” seeChapter 22). All these efforts produce useful informat...
RESEARCHARTICLE PlasticPollutionintheWorld’sOceans: Morethan5TrillionPlasticPieces Weighingover250,000TonsAfloatatSea MarcusEriksen 1 *,LaurentC.M.Lebreton 2 ,HenryS.Carson 3,4 ,MartinThiel 5,6,7 , CharlesJ.Moore 8 ,JoseC.Borerro 9 ,FrancoisGalgani 10 ,PeterG.Ryan 11 , JuliaReisser 12 1...