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Clean Ships, Clean Ports, Clean Oceans Controlling Garbage and Plastic Wastes at Sea (1995) / Chapter Skim
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... The strategy borrows from the basic methodology of the EPA's planned marine debris monitoring program but is different in three important respects: The committee's model focuses on plastics rather than all marine debris, attempts to isolate vessel garbage from land-source debris, and includes both beach and benthic surveys. The goal would be to determine the fluxes of plastics through the marine environment as a function of time.
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Key Terms

  • marine debris
  • vessel garbage
  • fishing gear
  • marine environment
  • marine pollution

  • overboard discharge


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