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How eight interventions could break the plastic wave
World Ocean Initiative Plastics & Pollution
By 2040 it is estimated that roughly 29m tonnes of plastic will leak into the ocean annually, equivalent to 50kg of plastic for every metre of coastline around the world. This startling figure is at the centre of a two-year research project that highlights current failures to deal with plastic waste and urgently calls for system-wide change.
The research, released in July by the Pew Charitable Trusts and Systemiq—a London-based environmental think-tank—and peer-reviewed by the journal Science, warns that by 2040 there could be over 600m tonnes of plastic in the ocean—the weight of more than 3m blue whales.
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