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Sea near Mumbai among the most polluted in the world: Global study
Source: Hindustan Times, Date: , 2017
Source: Hindustan Times, Mumbai, April,
2017 :- The seas near
Mumbai, Kerala and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are among the most polluted
in the world, a global study that mapped marine pollution around the world has found.Researchers
from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research in Germany have for the first time compiled 1,237 scientific studies
on marine litter into a single, comprehensive database called Litterbase. Litterbase
establishes a global map identifying several such locations in the world with
the maximum marine plastic pollution. Garbage, mainly plastic, has for decades
choked our rivers and streams that ultimately flow into the ocean. And Mumbai’s
coast, and therefore the sea next to it, is among the worst of the lot. The
database did a quantitative analysis of plastic debris on beaches in Mumbai and
found an average of 68.83 items a sqm at four beaches – Juhu, Versova, Dadar
and Aksa — most of it (41.85%) were microplastics ranging in size from 1m to
5m.
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