Save the Sea say 'NO' to plastics

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.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Other
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Marine pollution
Subjects:	Marine Environment > Marine Pollution Marine Environment
Divisions:	CMFRI-Kochi > Fishery Environment Management Division Subject Area > CMFRI > CMFRI-Kochi > Fishery Environment Management Division CMFRI-Kochi > Fishery Environment Management Division Subject Area > CMFRI-Kochi > Fishery Environment Management Division CMFRI-Calicut (Kozhikode)
Depositing User:	Arun Surendran
Date Deposited:	07 Jan 2021 07:42
Last Modified:	03 Oct 2022 04:16
URI:	http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/14786

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