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Hyb,juhjmuhjuhkij Humanity's actions have reduced to a mere percentage of that population the initial large populations of many large marine mammals such as whales. Whale survival is facing a major threat from plastic pollution, and if the whales continue to suffer, the rest of marine life will suffer. The results and effects of plastic on the marine life of our Earth is nothing less than terrifying and it’s all because of the disposable behaviour of humanity. Actually reducing our plastic consumption and habits and cutting our use of single-use plastic as much as we can is the best way to fight the pollution due to plastic. The effects have been large, but there is still time to make a difference. Science data could help provide feedback for environmental planning, strengthen the foundation for pre-education campaigns, and also provide better evidence to marine scientists that could be used to urge more action from officials to mitigate the problem. Due to the long life of plastics on marine ecosystems, it is important that drastic measures are taken to address the problem at both national and global level. Because even if plastics manufacturing and recycling stopped suddenly, the accumulated litter will continue to harm marine life for decades to come. Nevertheless, many attempts have been made to promote international law security of the world's oceans, such as the development of the 1972 Convention on the 1978 Protocol to the International Convention on the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) which helped shedding light on the fact that vessels have a major and controllable origin of oceanic pollution. This prohibits the recycling of plastics and other synthetic materials such as fishing nets, hawsers and plastic garbage bags at sea. However, unfortunately, the law is still largely ignored, and ships are estimated to discard about 8 million tons of plastics per year. Legislation laws also play a principal role at the national level. Individual countries may be prosperous by their legislation, such as laws demanding standards of degradability or the ones promoting the concept of reducing, recycling, and reusing. However, the biggest challenge when it comes to law-making is enforcing it in an area as vast as the oceans of the world. Download 13.01 Kb. Share with your friends:
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