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Microplastic can remain active as marine contaminants for years: Experts
Updated On: 15 July, 2022 12:22 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Microplastics have infiltrated the food and water consumed by humans and animals alike and also the air. Once the microplastics enter the environment, they act as -- rather turn into -- pollutants and can remain active as marine contaminants for hundreds of years
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Did you know that 9-14 million tonnes of plastic ended up in oceans by 2016, forming 60-90 per cent of marine litter, and the number is expected to triple by 2040?
And 80 per cent of this marine pollution originates in land? It is the humans that are responsible. How? Almost miniscule segregation at source sending all plastic to landfill sites, low recycling rates and no control over what flows down the nullahs into the rivers, which goes straight into the oceans.
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