The main land based sources of marine litter are municipal landfills (waste dumps) located on the coast, riverine transport of waste from landfills and other sources, discharges of untreated municipal sewage and storm water, industrial facilities, medical waste and tourism (recreational visitors, beach goers).

They identified the main sources of debris in the ocean and in coastal areas as poorly managed landfills, waste carried by wind from urban areas and by sewage systems and rivers into the ocean, as well as shipping.

Sources of marine litter

Effects of marine litter

Move waste to stock

I was going to be The Garbage Man.

Don't forget to take out the garbage.

DCF is merely a mechanical valuation tool, which makes it subject to the principle garbage in, garbage out .

Move waste back to stock

Move waste on to a reserve slot

The garbage can gave off a bad smell.

There is so much trash here.

Sami threw the pills in the garbage.

Sami threw the pills in the garbage.

The bombs were planted in rubbish bins.

Programmes in chemicals, waste and environmental democracy

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.

Our garbage is collected three times a week.

Someone needs to take the bin out.

Fadil's body was in the garbage.

Syrian Palestinian eating from the garbage.

One woman searches rubble. One woman feeds on trash.

Challenges in preventing and combating marine litter

While all computer analysis is subject to the GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) restriction, this is especially true of digital simulation.

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.

Arvind Gupta Turning trash into toys for learning

They cleaned the trash against the clinic wall.

Remnants of the trunk and just a hole where people throw their trash.

The centenary celebrations were over and all that glowing garbage was swept away.

A street children plays in the plastic dumps in Bangladesh.

Inclusion of marine litter in global and regional environmental assessments

We must also help with hygiene by building waste and water treatment plants.

(v) Precaution, as further elaborated and defined in multilateral chemicals and wastes conventions and agreements

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.

Garbage accumulates outside of a secondary school in Bizerte, Tunisia.

The United Nations Environment Programme and the marine litter challenge

Government employees include teachers, policemen, trash collectors, and military personnel.

Shan Ding Lu has compiled a photo essay about rubbish in Taiwan.

Volunteers also clean snow and remove garbage from the protest sites.

It spoils, fouls and destroys the beauty of the sea and the coastal zone.

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

Agriculture was the second largest emitter for most Parties, followed by the industrial processes and the waste sectors.

(e) The scope of national legislation in relation to transboundary movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes

Categorically condemns the illicit dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes in developing countries

1 Project activities referring to the burning of peat and non biogenic waste should not be included in the indicative