Global funding to revolutionise waste management in the world’s worst polluting countries could clean up ocean plastic by 77% by 2025.
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Ecology researchers have released a report this week to coincide with Ocean Plastics Crisis Summit in London, claiming the countries with the highest responsibility for marine plastic could reduce pollution by 77 per cent with extra global funding.
Edward Kosior. Brunel University London Professor, said when launching the report: “We have no right to harm the lives of other creatures by allowing plastics to get into the ocean. This dire situation calls for strong immediate action to slow the rate at which waste is produced.”
“We have to end this dig-use-discard mentality. Every package that’s made should be recyclable. There’s no excuse. It is a must for all.”
The report says caps on plastic waste and stamping out waste mismanagement by the top 10 polluting countries, including China, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Sri Lanka, could cut ocean plastics by 77 per cent. That would reduce yearly volume of plastic going into the oceans to 2.4 to 6.4 million tons by 2025.
