Plastic waste in the oceans a major threat for mankind

#plasticwaste #globalwarming #oceans #plasticpollution The amount of plastic wastes in the form of plastic debris such as food packaging and plastic bottles in the oceans is a matter of great concern for mankind because as per estimates, by the year 2025 there would be 100 bags of plastic per foot of coastline in the world. This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 14 February 2015.
And – that is certainly not good news because the world's oceans are being filled with enough plastic waste to thickly line every coastline in the world. This is as per the first detailed global assessment of the problem.
In the estimate of scientists nearly 7.25 million tonnes of plastic debris get washed into the waters of the oceans every year - and these will add up to a tenfold increase in the total amount of plastic in the sea by 2020.
As Dr Jenna Jambeck, assistant professor of environmental engineering at the University of Georgia, has said – this amount of waste can be considered to be the equivalent to five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world.
She has gone on to add that in 2025, the annual input would be about twice the 2010 input, or 10 bags full of plastic per foot of coastline.
It is known that plastics can clog water lines and, therefore, the need of the hour should be to control plastic pollution and focus on how best to destroy the plastic wastes on land itself instead of allowing them to flow into the oceans. If unchecked, it could pose a major problem when coupled with global warming and corresponding increase in level of water levels of oceans.