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“Oceanfills”: Yet another dumping ground

OECD Observer 2018
Dulika Rathnayake

Summary

This essay describes the world's oceans as another dumping ground for human waste, summarizing the problem of marine debris accumulation driven by waste from human activities transported to sea. It frames ocean plastic pollution as a symbol of humanity's failure to manage its environmental footprint.

The world's oceans are being damaged by a constant and unprecedented accumulation of waste known as marine debris. The waste, mostly from effluent human activities, is brought to the oceans through currents and often carried far from where it originated.

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