Marine pollution occurs when substances used or spread by humans, such as industrial, agricultural and residential waste, particles, noise, excess carbon dioxide or invasive organisms enter the ocean and cause harmful effects there.
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Air Marine pollution is a contributing factor by carrying off iron, carbonic acid, nitrogen, silicon, sulfur, pesticides or dust particles into the ocean.
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The Marine pollution often comes from nonpoint sources such as agricultural runoff, wind-blown debris, and dust.
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Types of marine pollution can be grouped as pollution from marine debris, plastic pollution, including microplastics, ocean acidification, nutrient pollution, toxins and underwater noise.
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Plastic pollution in the ocean is a type of marine pollution by plastics, ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic material.
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Marine pollution debris is mainly discarded human rubbish which floats on, or is suspended in the ocean.
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Point source Marine pollution occurs when there is a single, identifiable, localized source of the Marine pollution.
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Nonpoint source Marine pollution occurs when the Marine pollution is from ill-defined and diffuse sources.
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Marine pollution debris, known as marine litter, is human-created waste that has deliberately or accidentally been released in a sea or ocean.
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Marine plastic pollution is a type of marine pollution by plastics, ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic material.
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Marine pollution debris is mainly discarded human rubbish which floats on, or is suspended in the ocean.
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Amount of awareness on marine pollution is vital to the support of keeping the prevention of trash from entering waterways and ending up in our oceans.
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The international community has agreed that reducing Marine pollution in the oceans is a priority, which is tracked as part of Sustainable Development Goal 14 which actively seeks to undo these human impacts on the oceans.
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Marine pollution was a concern during several United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea beginning in the 1950s.
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Marine pollution made further international headlines after the 1967 crash of the oil tanker Torrey Canyon, and after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill off the coast of California.
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Marine pollution was a major area of discussion during the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm.
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