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http:\/\/www.unep.org\/newscentre\/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2796&ArticleID=11008&l=en<\/a>\n\nOcean Experts Call for Greater Local Government Role in Fight Against\nMarine Waste\n\nwo, okt 1, 2014\n\nFresh Strategies to tackle Pollution, Plastics and Climate Impacts to be\nIncluded in New Plan to Manage the World's Seas.\n\nAthens, 1 October 2014 - Leading scientists and policymakers meeting in\nAthens this week acknowledged that marine litter remained a \"tremendous\nchallenge\" in almost all regions of the world, with significant\nsocio-economic consequences and clear impacts on marine ecosystems.\n\nThe three-day 16th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and\nAction Plans was held amid growing concern worldwide about the threat\nthat widespread plastic waste poses to marine life, with conservative\nestimates of overall financial damage of plastic to marine ecosystems\nstanding at US$13 billion each year.\n\nParticipating experts recommended a three-tier approach to marine\nlitter, saying that the problem needed to be tackled - not just at the\nregional and national levels - but at the municipal level, because in\nmost cases it is municipalities that have responsibility for solid-waste\nmanagement.\n\n\"If we are serious about reducing the amount of solid waste being dumped\nin oceans, or flowing through waterways into oceans and marine\necosystems, then we need to work at all levels, including with\nmunicipalities which deal with solid waste management at grassroots\nlevel,\" said Julian Reyna, Secretary-General of the Permanent Commission\non the South Pacific, Ecuador.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
http:\/\/www.unep.org\/newscentre\/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2796&ArticleID=11008&l=en Ocean Experts Call for Greater Local Government Role in Fight Against Marine Waste wo, okt 1, 2014 Fresh Strategies to tackle Pollution, Plastics and Climate Impacts to be Included in New Plan to Manage the World’s Seas. Athens, 1 October 2014 – Leading scientists and policymakers meeting in Athens this week acknowledged that marine litter remained a “tremendous challenge” in almost all regions of the world, with significant socio-economic consequences and clear impacts on marine ecosystems. The three-day 16th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans was held amid growing concern worldwide about the threat that widespread plastic waste poses to marine life, with conservative estimates of overall financial damage of plastic to marine ecosystems standing at US$13 billion each year. Participating experts recommended a three-tier approach to marine litter, saying that the problem needed to be tackled – not just at the regional and national levels – but at the municipal level, because in most cases it is municipalities that have responsibility for solid-waste management. “If we are serious about reducing the amount of solid waste being dumped in oceans, or flowing through waterways into oceans and marine ecosystems, then we need to work at all levels, including with municipalities which deal with solid waste management at grassroots level,” said Julian Reyna, Secretary-General of the Permanent Commission on the South Pacific, Ecuador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3504,3380,3488],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nOcean Experts Call for Greater Local Government Role in Fight Against Marine Waste - One Earth - One Ocean e. 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