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Marine Litter
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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
Libya Mauritius Liberia Togo Comoros Angola United Kingdom Russia Nicaragua Papua New Guinea Cuba Guatemala Ghana Colombia Honduras Mexico Somalia Venezuela Ecuador Dominican Republic El Salvador Ukraine Japan Haiti Argentina Syria Yemen Peru Cote d'Ivoire Tunisia Iran Senegal United States Morocco Myanmar Brazil Pakistan Turkey Algeria India South Africa Bangladesh Nigeria Malaysia Egypt Thailand Sri Lanka Vietnam Philippines Indonesia China North Korea Plastic input from municipal solid waste and wastewater Million tonnes, 2010 3,5 1 0,5 0,05 Note: only countries with more than 50 000 tonnes of mismanaged plastic waste are shown Lower estimate (15% of plastic mismanaged) Higher estimate (40% of plastic mismanaged) Plastic marine debris** Less than 1 No data National wastewater treatment indicator* 80 to 100 60 to 80 40 to 60 20 to 40 10 to 20 1 to 10 ** From mismanaged municipal solid waste *Tracks percentage of wastewater from households and industry treated before release back into the environment. Source: Jambeck, J., R., et al., Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean, Science, 2015 Plastic input into the oceans Plastic sources Fishing intensity Coastal* inputs Impervious surface in watersheds Shipping *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. 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. Paci c Ocean Indian Ocean Atlantic Ocean