{"id":19680,"date":"2018-11-25T22:32:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T19:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/?p=19680"},"modified":"2024-08-19T16:16:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T11:46:45","slug":"plastic-pollution-in-sea-set-to-treble-in-a-decade-warn-government-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/en\/plastic-pollution-in-sea-set-to-treble-in-a-decade-warn-government-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic pollution in sea set to treble in a decade, warn government scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plastic pollution in sea set to treble in a decade, warn government scientists<\/span><\/h1>\n

The amount of\u00a0plastic<\/a>\u00a0in the world\u2019s oceans is set to treble in a decade unless action is taken to deal with the problem, according to a major new report.<\/span><\/p>\n

Experts\u00a0warned\u00a0that plastic is one of the\u00a0biggest threats<\/a>\u00a0facing the world\u2019s seas, while highlighting other keys issues including\u00a0rising sea levels, warming oceans\u00a0and metal and chemical pollution.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Foresight Future of the Sea Report\u00a0warns\u00a0against an \u201cout of sight, out of mind\u201d approach to the problems affecting the world\u2019s seas, while calling\u00a0for concerted action on plastics in particular.<\/span><\/p>\n

Experts write the Foresight reports\u00a0to brief ministers on significant issues in the medium and long term.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite its warnings, the report on the future of the seas highlights\u00a0opportunities to cash in on the global \u201cocean\u00a0economy\u201d\u00a0\u2013 which it says is set to double to $3 trillion\u00a0(\u00a3\u06f2 trillion) by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n

If governments could\u00a0identify ways of protecting biodiversity in the seas, then it might be possible to profit from nodules of metals, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span> Garbage in the Beach and beautiful seascape in background, Egypt, Red Sea<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They report\u2019s authors predict that the biggest industrial growth in the seas will come from offshore wind, followed by marine aquaculture and fish processing.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a need for more research into the impact it is having on the\u00a0ocean, according to Professor Ian Boyd, chief scientific adviser for the Environment Department and one of the\u00a0report\u2019s authors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Plastic pollution, which is set to treble between 2015 and 2025 without intervention, has a physical presence in the oceans, and can accumulate on the coasts or in particular areas of the sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

While animals have been documented consuming or\u00a0becoming entangled in plastics<\/a>, the toxic effects they have when they break down and end up inside marine organisms are still not clear.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cEven in absence of research, there is a precautionary principle to take here, which is we should minimise the amount of plastic, both macroplastic and microplastic, going into the marine environment, in order to make sure that if there are toxic effects, those are being dealt with,\u201d Professor Boyd added.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The authors suggested efforts to reduce plastic pollution should focus on preventing it entering the sea, introducing new biodegradable plastics and public awareness campaigns about marine protection.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPlastic pollution is one of the greatest threats facing our oceans, with items ranging from whole plastic bottles to tiny microplastics being found in seas all around the world,\u201d said Louise Edge, senior oceans campaigner at\u00a0Greenpeace UK<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf strong action isn\u2019t taken now, the problem will get exponentially worse.\u00a0More research is needed on the many different facets of plastic pollution, but it is already clear that we must end our relationship with throwaway plastic and find alternative packaging solutions which won\u2019t harm our environment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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She added: \u201cRetailers should eliminate single-use plastic from their own-brand packaging and the Government can play an important role by introducing a UK-wide deposit return scheme for all drinks containers to help us reduce, reuse and recycle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Edward Hill, executive director of the National Oceanography Centre, said it was time to change the \u201cout of sight, out of mind\u201d attitude to the world\u2019s oceans.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said the\u00a0Blue Planet<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>television series has helped people visualise what is going on in the oceans, provoking both wonder at what is down there and horror at the impact humans are having.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s this sense of the unexplored world on our own planet, but also it\u2019s important to us. We know less about the bottom of the sea than the moon or Mars, but nothing lives on the moon or Mars, but things live in our ocean and they\u2019re vitally important to us,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additional reporting by PA<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plastic pollution in sea set to treble in a decade, warn government scientists The amount of\u00a0plastic\u00a0in the world\u2019s oceans is set to treble in a decade unless action is taken to deal with the problem, according to a major new report. Experts\u00a0warned\u00a0that plastic is one of the\u00a0biggest threats\u00a0facing the world\u2019s seas, while highlighting other keys…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[494],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21147,"href":"https:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680\/revisions\/21147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarhabpolymer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}