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How to Cope with Plastics Pollution of Oceans?

Research & Development in Material Science 2018
Daniel A. Löwy

Summary

This paper reviewed the alarming scale of ocean plastic pollution — at least 8 million tons per year, equivalent to a truckload per minute — and examined strategies for addressing this growing threat to marine ecosystems and human health.

Study Type Environmental

Plastic pollution of oceans has become an increasingly widespread and alarming phenomenon, which represents a threat to the future of mankind. Statistical data are disturbing; at least 8 million tons of plastics leak in the ocean every year, a quantity equivalent to dumping in the water one garbage truck of plastic every minute. Consequences on the ecosystem are dramatic.

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