Marine Litter Vital Graphics

DRIVERS

How plastic moves from the economy to the environment

Sectors using plastics (intermediate and nal consumption

Textiles and clothing

Construction

Food and drink

Cosmetics and personal care

Terrestrial transport

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ECONOMY

Retail of products and services

Waste and wastewater management

Microbeads in products, accidental releases, plastic blasting, degradation of buoys, loss of nets

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littering, deliberate/illegal waste disposal

Litter washed into stormwater drains, micro bres, microbeads, bio- lters

Rawmaterial inputs fossil fuels and agricultural material for bioplastics

loss of packaging, tyre wear, accidental releases

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Marine Litter Vital Graphics