The environment

What is ocean pollution?
Ocean pollution is one of the direct consequences of poor management of human waste and the excessive release of toxic products by industries. Fertilizers, pesticides, plastic bags, various objects abandoned on dry land will sooner or later find their way to the oceans via rivers, surface runoff, rain or winds.
For plastic waste alone, it is estimated that the equivalent of a truck is dumped into the seas every minute. Added to this are other forms of waste but also oil discharges from ships and fishing nets abandoned at sea which trap marine fauna much more often than not.
By promoting the ingestion of waste by animals, contact with harmful substances or the proliferation of harmful species, ocean pollution is the cause of the decline in marine biodiversity and the decline of some of the most essential ecosystems. of the planet. A decline that could call into question the capacity of the global ocean to fulfill the functions that benefit us all.