Plastic Trash Enters The Sea

Eight million metric tons of plastic trash enters the sea from land every year, the equivalent of five plastic bags filled with trash for every foot of coastline in the world across our ocean plastic trash flows into circulation dispersed almost everywhere but concentrating in huge swats in midst of global currents breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces ingested by species across the marine world and sinking to the bottom of the sea.
“Anyone can come up with plastic bag and sell it anywhere in the world, there is no design paragon and no selling barriers, in order to solve the plastic packaging problem we need to effectively rethink the entire system .The ultimate goal of the new plastics economy is to design an economy where plastic packaging never becomes waste, and to do that we need every single player in the chain to change the way they do things” says Ellen MacArthur, Chair of Trustees, Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
But marine pollution comes in many forms industrial, agricultural and urban waste, also sweep into the sea fuelling explosion of algae that rob marine ecosystems of the oxygen’s they need to survive. With sustained pollutions these areas become dead zone which already exist in more than 400 locations across the globe.
But Nutrient pollution can be managed through change in major contributing systems like agriculture.
“If you eat you are involved in agriculture so it’s a problem that all of us have to work together to solve soil health is critical for water quality it’s the first thing we have to focus on here on the farm organic matter is the key thing we try to improve the more organic matter you have in the soil the better the oil can hold on to nutrients like phosphorous and nitrogen organic matters keeps it from the leaching out of the soil and it grabs on to it and that’s good for farmer but its also good for water quality in the bay, for any farmer to change their system is tricky and it takes a lot of work I think all farmer want to is learning different processes practices that allow you to do it effectively that becomes the key”, says Michael Heller Manager, Clagett Farm.

By – Abhishek Singh
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