For other meanings of litter, see Litter (disambiguation).

Sources of marine litter

Effects of marine litter

Considering the very slow rate of degradation of most marine litter items, a continuous input of large quantities of marine litter will result in a gradual increase of litter in the coastal and marine environment.

Therefore, please be mindful before you litter.

Challenges in preventing and combating marine litter

Here's a basket full of fruit.

You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.

And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.

There is a basket under the table.

Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

A southern France firefighters' department statistic attributes 16 of local bushfires to cigarette litter thrown out of moving vehicles (and 13.8 to cigarette litter from pedestrians).

The United Nations Environment Programme and the marine litter challenge

Overview of activities of regional seas programmes on marine litter

Inclusion of marine litter in global and regional environmental assessments

In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.

Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.

Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.

As long as the input of non degradable litter into the marine environment continues, the result will be increased quantities of marine litter in the coastal and marine environments.

Students litter them in the school yard after they are done.

Pieces of marine litter can also transport invasive species between seas.

And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

Surface litter is generally not included as part of soil organic matter.

The United States has a number of marine litter and debris activities.

The overall objective of the currently scheduled project is to seek sustainable management of marine litter in the NOWPAP region in line with the sources, quantities and adverse effects of marine litter.

It is a basket of crabs, one Congolese friend told me.

But the consumption basket of an average Chinese is vastly different from the consumption basket of an average American, so PPP comparisons between China and the US can be misleading.

One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

Plastic litter is increasingly believed to be a source of persistent toxic substances.

One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

This basket should include, at the very least, preferred shares and bonds.

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me behold, a basket of summer fruit.

By July of 2005, 22 countries had surveyed the full consumption basket.

There is a need to differentiate between measures aimed at preventing marine litter at the source and measures taken to deal with marine litter once it is already present in the marine and coastal environment.

Development of guidelines for management of marine litter at the regional and national levels

In most places, infrastructure is non existent and millions of unexploded landmines litter the soil.

The main findings of the MED POL assessment of coastal litter in the Mediterranean are

And I touched it and I went, Oh my God, it's a laundry basket.

I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

In 2002, over 390,000 volunteers in 100 countries took part in these campaigns. They removed marine litter from more than 21,000 km of coastline and waterways, collecting more than 6.2 million pieces of marine litter, weighing over 4,000 tonnes.

A leaflet on marine litter, entitled Tightening the noose , was also published recently by UNEP. As mentioned earlier, in order to address the global and transboundary problem of marine litter, an interdisciplinary, multisectoral and holistic approach should be taken.

In the longer run, OPEC will shift to pricing petroleum in a basket of currencies.

After use, the coffee filter ring could be easily removed from the basket and discarded.

The highly flammable hydrogen meant that cooking could not be done in the basket itself.