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In 2016, the United States generated more plastic waste than any country in the world, with a total of 42 MMT (Law et al. 2020). However, the United States only has 4.3% of the world’s population (World Bank 2021). U.S. per capita plastic waste generation is 130 kg/year, which is about 2-8 times higher than many other countries (Law et al. 2020).
- Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste ...
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Reckoning with the U.S Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste...
- Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste ...
HIGHLIGHTS. Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic WasteResearchers have found plastic waste in almost every marine habitat, from the ocean surface to deep sea sediments to the o. an’s vast mid-water region, as well as the Great Lakes. An estimated 8 million metric tons (MMT) of plastic waste enters the world’s ocean each year ...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021 – 2:30 p.m. via Zoom. on. Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste. The United States is a major producer of plastics and in 2016, generated more plastic waste by weight and per capita than any other nation. Although the U.S. solid waste management system is advanced, it is not sufficient to ...
Feb 28, 2022 · The United States welcomes the historic opportunity at the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2), February-March 2022, to start a process with other nations and stakeholders to fight plastic pollution. The United States is already acting both domestically and internationally to address this global challenge. Key U.S. programs are highlighted below. National U.S. Environmental ...
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Researchers started documenting marine plastic pollution in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Public and scientific interest in the issue exploded in the early 2000s after oceanographer Charles Moore drew attention to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch– a region in the central north Pacific where ocean currents concentrate floating plastic trash into sp...
The new report is a sweeping overview of marine plastic pollution, grounded in science. However, many of its conclusions and recommendations have been proposed in various forms for years, and in our view the report could have done more to advance those discussions. For example, it strongly recommends developing a national marine debris monitoring p...
Actions to detect, track and remove plastic waste from the ocean will require substantial financial support. But there’s little federal funding for marine debris research and cleanup. In 2020, for example, NOAA’s Marine Debris Program budget request was $US7 million, which represents 0.1% of NOAA’s $5.65B 2020 budget. Proposed funding for the Marin...
The private sector also has a crucial role to play in reducing plastic use and waste. We would have liked to see more discussion in the report of how businesses and industries contribute to the accumulation of ocean plastic waste and their role in solutions. The report correctly notes that plastic pollution is an environmental justice issue. Minori...
Dec 1, 2021 · Reckoning with the U.S Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste concludes plastic waste in the U.S. is ubiquitous and increasing. Worldwide, at least 8.8 million metric tons of plastic waste enter the world’s oceans each year — the equivalent of dumping a garbage truck of plastic into the ocean every minute — and in 2016 the U.S. generated more plastic waste than any other country, exceeding ...
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This report responds to a request in the bipartisan Save Our Seas 2.0 Act for a scientific synthesis of the role of the United States both in contributing to and responding to global ocean plastic waste. The United States is a major producer of plastics and in 2016, generated more plastic waste by weight and per capita than any other nation ...
