Marine Litter

The massive gathering to celebrate India's T20 World Cup victory at Marine Drive last evening did not just choke the Mumbai roads, but also left piles of litter that took the entire night to be cleared.

In 2004, Professor Richard Thompson, a marine biologist from the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom, coined the term "microplastics."

A new report released at the inaugural session of the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi has put a price on plastic marine pollution at $13 billion every year, and that's an under estimation. Annually, an estimated 10 to 20 million tonnes of plastics end up in the world's oceans and 80 per cent of the marine litter comes from land-based...

The massive gathering to celebrate India's T20 World Cup victory at Marine Drive last evening did not just choke the Mumbai roads, but also left piles of litter that took the entire night to be cleared.

In 2004, Professor Richard Thompson, a marine biologist from the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom, coined the term "microplastics."

A new report released at the inaugural session of the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi has put a price on plastic marine pollution at $13 billion every year, and that's an under estimation. Annually, an estimated 10 to 20 million tonnes of plastics end up in the world's oceans and 80 per cent of the marine litter comes from land-based...