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Each year, we expose the world’s waterways to an increasing variety of pollutants — plastic debris, chemical runoff, crude oil and more. Fortunately, it’s not too late to clean up our act. Share the dirty truth about ocean pollution and help make a difference.
However, our reliance on it has created a global environmental crisis, harming our oceans and all life that lives in them. Here are 10 plastic pollution in the ocean facts you should know about. — 1. More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans every year
Ocean pollution in the form of fossil fuels, trash, offshore drilling, and noise is harming marine life. Learn what you can do to reduce harm to our oceans.
Marine debris is a persistent pollution problem that reaches throughout the entire ocean and Great Lakes. Our ocean and waterways are polluted with a wide variety of marine debris, ranging from tiny microplastics, smaller than 5 mm, to derelict fishing gear and abandoned vessels.
Marine pollution encompasses many types of pollution that disrupt the marine ecosystem, including chemical, light, noise, and plastic pollution.
More than 171 trillion pieces of plastic are now estimated to be floating in the world's oceans, according to scientists. Plastic kills fish and sea animals and takes hundreds of years to...
Every year, about eight million tons of plastic waste escapes into the oceans from coastal nations. That’s the equivalent of setting five garbage bags full of trash on every foot of coastline ...
Most ocean pollution begins on land. When large tracts of land are plowed, the exposed soil can erode during rainstorms. Much of this runoff flows to the sea, carrying with it agricultural fertilizers and pesticides. Eighty percent of pollution to the marine environment comes from the land.
Plastics are the most common form of marine debris. They can come from a variety of land and ocean-based sources; enter the water in many ways; and impact the ocean and Great Lakes. Once in the water, plastic debris never fully biodegrades.
An analysis of 2016 data estimates that approximately 11 million metric tons of plastic pollution enters the ocean every year (SOURCE: Pew/Systemiq). This represents more than a garbage truck’s worth of plastics entering the ocean every minute (SOURCE: Ocean Conservancy estimate).