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Clean Ships, Clean Ports, Clean Oceans Controlling Garbage and Plastic Wastes at Sea (1995) / Chapter Skim
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... IDENTIFYING VESSEL GARBAGE IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT The amounts and precise characteristics of garbage thrown overboard, either before the ratification of Annex V or since, are unknown. Vessel discards are difficult to isolate and identify in the marine environment, due to the littering of coastal waters by land-generated wastes left on beaches, continuing domestic and industrial sewer discharges, and previously discharged waste transported via offshore winds, rivers, and coastal runoff.
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... Table 2-1 lists items that might be used as indicators for vessel discards washed ashore in the Gulf of Mexico; it should be possible to identify comparable indicator items for vessel garbage in other regions. To date, the monitoring of debris under the Marine Plastics Pollution Research and Control Act (MPPRCA)
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  • discharged overboard
  • national park
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  • marine board
  • marine plastic
  • management service
  • minerals management
  • beach debris


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