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RE: A study of mesopelagic fish found that 73 % of them had plastic in their gut!
So sad story that 95 percent of ocean plastic pollution created by only 10 river majority of them (80 percent) belongs to Asia. It is due to poor inhabitant, no public awareness, corruption, no enforcement of laws. The situation will be worst if we cannot take emergency measures to cope up plastic pollution problem. The best thing to cope up with this issue is to provide awareness to maximum people. Even if we steemians make promise with ourself to give awareness to our surroundings it will be very beneficial to reduce plastic pollution to great extent. Thanks for sharing
I completely agree. I personally think that a lot of this plastic would be stopped from entering the ocean if we do three things:
1) educate the people close to these ten rivers about the problems with plastic pollution,
2) get the governments to implement good recycling problems, and
3) get plastic recycling plants set up close to the end of these rivers to catch and collect a lot of the plastic that flows in the river.
Yes, this is something we all can improve on, even those of us who are already trying to do our best (because we can always do a bit better) :)
Awareness/education of plastic pollution and it's bad consequences is mandatory to both community i.e local community + tourist. Recycling plants near to the river is also a great idea. In addition govt can hire native staff members to clean the shore area. It will serve in two way. Local community will earn for providing services and at the same time help to minimize plastic pollution.
Yeah, I think this would be a great solution. It's too bad that the countries close to these big rivers are typically very poor, and the governments there are unlikely too care a lot about pollution..