LEARNING PATHWAY ON: OCEAN PLASTICS

Ocean plastics has quickly become the most visible and widely known ocean health issue. It has climbed policy agendas nationally and internationally. It has brought needed attention to the wider problem of “land-based marine pollution” – pollution of the ocean from waste that is generated on land, although ocean plastics are also partly caused by waste from fishing vessels. By now, ocean plastic are by far the biggest component of marine litter and pose a variety of threats to marine life and to the benefits that humans derive from thriving marine ecosystems.