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Sources of marine litter

Effects of marine litter

Considering the very slow rate of degradation of most marine litter items, a continuous input of large quantities of marine litter will result in a gradual increase of litter in the coastal and marine environment.

Challenges in preventing and combating marine litter

Feasibility Study on Sustainable Management of Marine Litter.

They removed marine litter from more than 21,000 km of coastline and waterways, collecting more than 6.2 million pieces of marine litter, weighing over 4,000 tonnes.

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The United Nations Environment Programme and the marine litter challenge

Marine litter is an environmental, economic, health and aesthetic problem.

Overview of activities of regional seas programmes on marine litter

Inclusion of marine litter in global and regional environmental assessments

As long as the input of non degradable litter into the marine environment continues, the result will be increased quantities of marine litter in the coastal and marine environments.

Pieces of marine litter can also transport invasive species between seas.

The overall objective of the currently scheduled project is to seek sustainable management of marine litter in the NOWPAP region in line with the sources, quantities and adverse effects of marine litter.

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Plastic litter is increasingly believed to be a source of persistent toxic substances.

Anbar, H. Litter in the Gulf. Marine Pollution Control, 32 455 456, 1996.

There is a need to differentiate between measures aimed at preventing marine litter at the source and measures taken to deal with marine litter once it is already present in the marine and coastal environment.

Development of guidelines for management of marine litter at the regional and national levels

Lost or abandoned fishing gear is a significant and very persistent form of marine litter.

A leaflet on marine litter, entitled Tightening the noose , was also published recently by UNEP.

The main findings of the MED POL assessment of coastal litter in the Mediterranean are

Marine litter related damage to people also includes safety risks at sea (demanding rescue services) owing, inter alia, to fouling of propellers, as well as damage to people's health (injuries, disease) from litter on beaches and in bathing water, including medical waste.

Every year, marine litter entails great economic costs and losses to people and communities around the world.

In 2004, UNEP initiated a feasibility study on sustainable management of marine litter (see para. 18 above).

The main results of the UNEP feasibility study on marine litter were published as a separate document.

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About 12 million was spent in the Republic of Korea during 2003 on issues related to marine litter.

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A short overview of activities of the United Nations Environment Programme related to addressing the problem of marine litter

Marine litter originates from many sources and has a wide spectrum of environmental, economic, safety, health and cultural impacts.

Damage to people, property and livelihoods caused by marine litter can be grouped into a number of general categories.

Marine litter should be included in global and regional agreements, action plans, initiatives and negotiations and in national legislation.

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Insurance companies estimate that a total of 50 million has been awarded for repairs from damage incurred by marine litter.

However measures to reduce or prevent marine litter should be a part of waste management in society as a whole.

These include assessments of marine litter as a land based pollutant and its impact on critical coastal and marine ecosystems.

Measures to deal with already existing marine litter include beach, water column and sea bottom clean up operations and projects to allow fishing vessels to leave ashore marine litter caught in fishing gear without having to pay any garbage fee (or even to encourage such collection of floating and suspending plastics).

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Despite efforts made internationally, regionally, nationally and many times locally, there are indications that the marine litter problem keeps growing worse.

The average annual amount of litter cleaned up on those beaches is 6,000 to 8,000 m3 (20 26 m3 per km).

Marine litter is not an environmental problem that can be solved solely by means of legislation, law enforcement and technical solutions.