Marine Litter Vital Graphics
PATHWAYS
Plastic input from municipal solid waste and wastewater
Russia
United Kingdom
Japan
Ukraine
North Korea
United States
Turkey
Tunisia
Syria
Pakistan
Morocco
China
Iran
Mexico
Cuba
Bangladesh
Libya
Algeria
Vietnam
Egypt
Dominican Republic
India
Guatemala
Senegal
Haiti
Honduras
Myanmar
Togo
Yemen
Philippines
Nicaragua
El Salvador
Nigeria
Venezuela
Malaysia
Liberia
Cote d'Ivoire
Thailand
Colombia
Somalia
Sri Lanka
Ecuador
Ghana
Papua New Guinea
Peru
Comoros
Angola
Brazil
Indonesia
National wastewater treatment indicator* 80 to 100
Mauritius
Plastic marine debris**
60 to 80 40 to 60 20 to 40 10 to 20 1 to 10
Million tonnes, 2010 3,5 1 0,5 0,05
South Africa
Argentina
Less than 1 No data
Lower estimate (15% of plastic mismanaged) Higher estimate (40% of plastic mismanaged) ** From mismanaged municipal solid waste
Note: only countries with more than 50 000 tonnes of mismanaged plastic waste are shown Source: Jambeck, J., R., et al., Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean, Science, 2015
*Tracks percentage of wastewater from households and industry treated before release back into the environment.
Despite knowledge of the role played by rivers, there are no global estimates of the amount of man-made debris reaching the ocean at river mouths. Therefore, of the estimated 4.8 to 12.7 million tonnes of litter which enter the marine environment in 2010 from land-based sources
within a 50 km-wide coastal zone (Jambeck et al., 2015), the proportion delivered by rivers is unknown. Debris originating more than 50 km inland from the coast would also need to be added to the figures above. The quantity and composition of anthropogenic debris delivered by a
Plastic input into the oceans
Atlantic Ocean
Paci c Ocean
Indian Ocean
Plastic sources
Fishing intensity Coastal* inputs Impervious surface in watersheds Shipping
Data courtesy of Laurent Lebreton/The Ocean Cleanup. Sources: IPCC scenario SRES B2; Jambeck, J., R., et al., Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean, Science, 2015; Watson, R. A., et al., Global marine yield halved as fishing intensity redoubles, 2013; Halpern, B. S., et al., A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems, 2008.
*Includes mismanaged waste combined with population density Note: the map utilizes a dimensionless model source input binned on 5x5 degree bins. Circles are indicative of the amplitude of the phenomena and do not express quantitative information.
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