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Experts say innovative collective efforts needed to tackle marine waste
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P4G '๋ น์๋ฏธ๋์ฃผ๊ฐ'...ํด์์ฐ๋ ๊ธฐ ๋์ํ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ํํธ๋์ญ ๊ฐํ • During the second section on the oceans, discussions took place on ways to tackle marine pollution,... which some experts say is a global issue just as critical as climate change itself. • Lee Kyung-eun reports. • The amount of plastic waste in the ocean and killing marine life could triple over the next 20 years. • By 2050, experts forecast there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish, unless global action happens now. • And in South Korea Wednesday,.. local and international experts looked to coordinate joint efforts to tackle marine pollution during a pre-session leading up to the P4G Seoul Summit. • Among those efforts is the East Asian Seas Initiative on Clean Oceans . • Led by the South Korean government, the Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia or PEMSEA,...and civil society,..the initiative aims to facilitate collective efforts required to fight a shared problem. • ...As the ocean has no apparent physical barriers marine litter can flow freely anywhere. The international community is already considering the marine litter problem as the critical issue as the climate change. • To provide inspiration,... a leading engineering environmental organization based in the Netherlands,…shared its knowledge and experience extracting plastic waste from the water. • Its efforts are focused on blocking plastics from flowing into the ocean in the first place,...which they say is more important than cleaning up what's already there. • It has developed a so-called Interceptor - a barrier belt system that concentrates and extracts plastic from rivers,...which they want to deploy to the world's most polluted rivers. • 1 percent of the world's rivers is responsible for almost 80 percent of all the plastic going to the ocean. So by focusing attention on those heaviest polluting rivers - actually many of them are in South East Asia - we believe we can have the fastest and also the most cost-effective pathway to prevent the plastics from going into ocean. • Other NGOs suggested a way to remove waste that's already in the ocean -- upcycling. • After all,... experts stand together on one thing. These private-public efforts should be accompanied by individual's basic efforts -- like using less plastic and using eco-friendly materials instead. • Lee Kyung-eun, Arirang News. • #P4G #GreenFutureWeek #marinewaste • • ๐ฃ Arirang News(Facebook) : / arirangtvnews • ๐ฃ Arirang News(Twitter) : / arirangtvnews • ๐ฃ News Center(YouTube) : / newscenter_arirangtv • • 2021-05-27, 12:00 (KST)
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