Marine Pollution By Plastic Debris: Imminent Dangers And Solutions

Marine environment plays a vital role in safeguarding the very existence of life in the blue planet since it absorbs 90 percent of excessive heat thus it has a crucial role in equilibrating the climate and climate change of the planet. The life saving machinery of the world is in an imminent danger due to marine pollution by plastic debris. A piece of plastic that enter into the marine environment exists in the ocean for more than millennium. As per statistics at least 14 million tones of plastic reach in the marine environment every year and it is 80 percent of all other debris. Marine plastic is injurious to marine mammals, equilibrium of climate, damaging to food web and the best solutions to regulate it is to make international laws are regulations, ban of single use plastic, availing alternatives at cheap rate, recycling, systematic waste manages technologies etc. It is doctrinal research using number of research works and surveys.