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Save the Sea say 'NO' to plastics

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14786/
CMFRI/FEM-CMP-28/CRS-01
 
Title Save the Sea say 'NO' to plastics
 
Creator Abhijith, Ramya
Jayasankar, Reeta
Shilta, M T
Asokan, P K
Vinod, K
 
Subject Marine Pollution
Marine Environment
 
Description During 1940s, the production of plastics was only
one million tonnes (World Economic Forum, 2016).
The Global plastic production increased
substantially to 311 million tonnes in 2014 and
further rose to 368 million tonnes in 2019. China is
the main producer of plastics and constitutes 31%
of the total global production. The 2020 COVID
pandemic had a great global economic loss, but plastic
production in China increased as there existed huge
global demand (www.statista.com). It is nightmarish
to learn that of the total production, about 10% of
plastics drift into the ocean. It is estimated that 14
million tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean every year
and 80% of marine debris are plastics (www.iucn.org).
The main components include the discarded single-use
plastic items which are land-based and ultimately reach
the ocean through the rivers and streams. In this way,
tonnes of plastics are directly or indirectly thrown into
the sea which makes the ocean a dumping yard of
plastics.
 
Publisher ICAR- Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2022
 
Type Other
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14786/1/Save%20the%20sea%20say%20no%20to%20plastics_2022_Ramya%20Abhijith.pdf
Abhijith, Ramya and Jayasankar, Reeta and Shilta, M T and Asokan, P K and Vinod, K (2022) Save the Sea say 'NO' to plastics. ICAR- Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kozhikode.