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How to Cope with Plastics Pollution of Oceans?
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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.
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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