Marine Litter Vital Graphics

PATHWAYS

Plastic input from municipal solid waste and wastewater

Russia

United Kingdom

Japan

Ukraine

North Korea

United States

Turkey

Tunisia

Syria

Pakistan

Morocco

China

Iran

Mexico

Cuba

Bangladesh

Libya

Algeria

Vietnam

Egypt

Dominican Republic

India

Guatemala

Senegal

Haiti

Honduras

Myanmar

Togo

Yemen

Philippines

Nicaragua

El Salvador

Nigeria

Venezuela

Malaysia

Liberia

Cote d'Ivoire

Thailand

Colombia

Somalia

Sri Lanka

Ecuador

Ghana

Papua New Guinea

Peru

Comoros

Angola

Brazil

Indonesia

National wastewater treatment indicator* 80 to 100

Mauritius

Plastic marine debris**

60 to 80 40 to 60 20 to 40 10 to 20 1 to 10

Million tonnes, 2010 3,5 1 0,5 0,05

South Africa

Argentina

Less than 1 No data

Lower estimate (15% of plastic mismanaged) Higher estimate (40% of plastic mismanaged) ** From mismanaged municipal solid waste

Note: only countries with more than 50 000 tonnes of mismanaged plastic waste are shown Source: Jambeck, J., R., et al., Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean, Science, 2015

*Tracks percentage of wastewater from households and industry treated before release back into the environment.

Despite knowledge of the role played by rivers, there are no global estimates of the amount of man-made debris reaching the ocean at river mouths. Therefore, of the estimated 4.8 to 12.7 million tonnes of litter which enter the marine environment in 2010 from land-based sources

within a 50 km-wide coastal zone (Jambeck et al., 2015), the proportion delivered by rivers is unknown. Debris originating more than 50 km inland from the coast would also need to be added to the figures above. The quantity and composition of anthropogenic debris delivered by a

Plastic input into the oceans

Atlantic Ocean

Paci c Ocean

Indian Ocean

Plastic sources

Fishing intensity Coastal* inputs Impervious surface in watersheds Shipping

Data courtesy of Laurent Lebreton/The Ocean Cleanup. Sources: IPCC scenario SRES B2; Jambeck, J., R., et al., Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean, Science, 2015; Watson, R. A., et al., Global marine yield halved as fishing intensity redoubles, 2013; Halpern, B. S., et al., A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems, 2008.

*Includes mismanaged waste combined with population density Note: the map utilizes a dimensionless model source input binned on 5x5 degree bins. Circles are indicative of the amplitude of the phenomena and do not express quantitative information.

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