India, Australia, and Singapore have joined forces for research interventions toward monitoring and assessing marine litter and plausible sustainable solutions to address the global marine plastic pollution issue, an official statement said on Tuesday.

Delivering the keynote address at a virtual international workshop on combating marine pollution, focusing on marine plastic debris on February 14 and 15, held by India, in partnership with the Australian and Singapore governments, India's secretary, Earth Sciences, Dr M. Ravichandran, suggested considering the application of technological tools such as remote sensing, artificial intelligence and machine learning to map the distribution of marine plastics and developing models to understand the dynamics of plastics in the Indian Ocean.