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Sustainable Management of Plastic Debris at a Local Level (Stakeholders…
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BOOKLET-FIELD SHEET-PROTOCOL-PLASTIC TYPE VISUAL GUIDE-PLASTIC REFERENCE COLECTION-SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT
Fact 6: By photo degradation and erosion all plastic debris has the potential to be fragmented and enter food chains
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Fact 5: The amount of plastic in the ocean is set to increase tenfold by 2020. By 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than there are fish (by weight)
Fact 2: About 8 million tons of plastic are thrown into the ocean annually. Of those, 236,000 tons are microplastics
Fact 3: Plastic fibers from textiles have been indicated as a major source of microplastics.The number of fibers released from washing 6 kg of laundry could reach more than 700,000 fibers. There may be 1.4 million trillion microfibers in the ocean
Fact 4: Microplastics in the oceans are only 1% or less of the annual amount of plastic waste to enter the ocean from land-based sources
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