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23/02/2017

UN Declares War on Ocean Plastic

Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal* 

ROME, Feb 23 2017 (IPS) – The available data is enough for the United Nations to literally declare war on oceans plastic: more than 8 million tonnes of leaks into their waters each year – equal to dumping a garbage truck of plastic every minute, wreaking havoc on marine wildlife, fisheries and tourism, and costing at least 8 billion dollars in damage to marine ecosystems.

The world's largest beach clean-up in history on Versova beach in Mumbai, India. Credit: UNEP

The world’s largest beach clean-up in history on Versova beach in Mumbai, India. Credit: UNEP

In fact, the Nairobi-based United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on February 23 launched an unprecedented global campaign to eliminate major sources of marine litter: micro-plastics in cosmetics and the excessive, wasteful usage of single-use plastic by the year 2022.

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