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5 de ene. de 2016 · 1. Wean yourself off disposable plastics. Ninety percent of the plastic items in our daily lives are used once and then chucked: grocery bags, plastic wrap, disposable cutlery, straws, coffee-cup...
Dec 13, 2021. Every year, eight million tonnes of plastic pollution ends up drifting or sinking in the ocean. Image: TONTOTON. Poonam Watine. UpLink Project Specialist, Innovation Ecosystems,World Economic Forum. Share: The Big Picture. Explore and monitor howPlastic Pollutionis affecting economies, industries and global issues.
Dec 21, 2023. To end plastic pollution by 2040, we need everyone across the plastic value chain to get involved. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto. Douglas McCauley. Professor, University of California Santa Barbara; Member of Friends of Ocean Action; Director,Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory. Clemence Schmid.
25 de feb. de 2022 · Marine litter and plastic pollution can alter habitats and natural processes, reducing ecosystems’ ability to adapt to the climate crisis, according to UNEP’s From Pollution to Solution report. This affects millions of people’s livelihoods, food security and social well-being.
Improving the management of plastic waste across the world – especially in poorer countries, where most of the ocean plastics come from – is therefore critical to tackling this problem. On this page, you can find all of our data, visualizations, and writing on plastic pollution.
25 de abr. de 2023 · What is being done about plastic pollution? In 2022, UN Member States agreed on a resolution to end plastic pollution. An Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee is developing a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, with the aim of having it finalized by the end of 2024.
Plastic Pollution. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of plastic waste leaks into aquatic ecosystems, polluting lakes, rivers and seas.
