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More and more plastic in the oceans

More and more plastic in the oceans

Healt & environment

The presence of plastic waste in the oceans it’s growing at a dizzying rate, it is expected that in the 2050 in the sea will be more plastic than fishes. This is what emerge from a report named “The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics” , realized by the Wold Economic Forum in collaboration with Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

It’s now estimated that the amount of plastics waste in the oceans is approximately of 165 millions tonnes; within than 2025 the ratio of plastics and fishes will be 1,1:3 and in the 2050 the quantity of plastics will be well over of the fishes.

The consequences of all this shall be easy to understand: the marine animals are forced to ingest large quantity of those wastes, that are transmitted along the entire food chain, including humans. The economy of the coast community based on tourism and fishing is becoming directly influenced.

The study goes even analyzing how is still low the tendency to recovering plastic waste which, respect of other materials, such as the paper (quote of recover of 58%) or the main ferrous metals or non (quote of recover of 70-90%), is initiate to recovering just for 14%. The failure recover of plastic also causes several financial direct losses, estimated between 80 to 120 billion dollars a year.

Different are the proposals identified by the study of Wold Economic Forum to face up this situation which could shortly become disastrous; in the first place recommends to invest in the searching of alternative materials to plastic with low-impact and developing new sustainable technology. This solution is not an alternative, in fact it must be seen as a support to increase significantly the recycling of waste plastic, to generate new artifacts or for energy recovery, in substitution of the natural raw materials.

The resources : http://www.greenstyle.it


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