SEAS POLLUTION

UN signals 'end' of throwaway plastic

UN environment ministers met in Kenya to sign a document stating that the flow of plastic into the ocean must be stopped.

Li Lin from WWF International said he want to see a progress on marine litter and micro-plastics and agreed by governments, business, NGOs and consumers as soon as possible because it’s an urgent issue.

Plastics are already damaging life in the sea but we can’t risk waiting before whole ecosystems start to be affected.

After all, the seas are also beset with climate change, acidification, dead zones and different types of pollution.

People is waiting to see governments prompted to move faster with their own polices to clamp down on waste plastic.

Stopping plastic litter requires new technology and new attitudes from the consumers.

Seas pollution is practically caused by flow of plastic. Plastic can’t decompose and its throw away in the ocean. The movement of the waves, the wind and the current accumulate all the plastic waste in a place of the ocean called seventh continent and that’s because covers an enormous space. This plastic is split by the solar radiation in micro-plastics that are ingested as a natural compound of the diet of some animals as fishes and birds. Those animals will be eaten by others animals and finally will affect whole ecosystems. We eat fish so we could say we eat plastic.