How
We Can Keep Plastics Out of Our Ocean

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8 million metric tons of plastic trash enters the sea
from land every year, the equivalent of five plastic bags filled with trash for
every foot of coastline in the world.

Across our ocean, plastic trash blows into
circulation, dispersed almost everywhere but concentrating in huge swaths in
the midst of global currents, breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces, ingested
by species across the marine world, and sinking to the bottom of the sea.

Ellen MacArthur: Anyone can make plastic anywhere in
the world and sell it anywhere else in the world.There's no design Paradigm,
there's no barriers. In order to solve the plastic packaging problem, we need
to effectively rethink the entire system from one which is linear—I take, make,
dispose—to one where it can be recovered and fed back into the economy as a
valuable plastic material, or one where it is bio benign, and it can enter the environment.The
ultimate goal of the new Plastics economy is to design an economy where plastic
packaging never becomes waste, and to do that, we need every single player in
the chain to change the way that they do things.

But marine pollution comes in many forms:industrial,
agricultural, and urban waste also sweep into the sea, fueling explosions of
algae that rob marine ecosystems of the oxygen they need to survive.

With sustained pollution, these areas become dead
zones, which already exist in more than 400 locations across the globe.

But nutrient pollution can be managed through change
in major contributing systems like agriculture.

Michael Heller: If you eat, you're involved in
agriculture, so it's a problem that all of us have to work together to solve.
Soil health is critical for water quality; it's the first thing we have to
focus on. Here on the farm, organic matter is the key thing that we try to
improve.The more organic matter you have in the soil,the better the soil can
hold on to nutrientslike phosphorus and nitrogen.Organic matter keeps it from
leeching out of the soil; it grabs onto it, and that's good for the farmer, but
it's also good for water quality in the bay. For any farmer to change their
system is tricky, and it takes a lot of work. I think all farmers want to; its
learning different processes, practices that allow you to do it effectively
that becomes a key.

매년 800만 톤의 플라스틱 쓰레기가 육지에서 바다로 유입되는데, 이는 전 세계 해안선 1피트당 쓰레기로 채워진 5개의 비닐봉지와 맞먹는 양입니다.

마이클 헬러: 먹으면 농업에 종사하기 때문에 우리 모두가 함께 해결해야 할 문제입니다. 토양 건강은 수질을 위해 매우 중요하며 가장 먼저 집중해야 하는 문제입니다. 농장에서 유기물은 우리가 개선하려고 노력하는 핵심 요소입니다. 토양에 유기물이 많을수록 토양은 인과 질소와 같은 영양소를 더 잘 붙잡을 수 있습니다.유기물은 토양에서 거머리가 나는 것을 방지하고, 그것을 붙잡아 농부에게도 좋지만 만의 수질에도 좋습니다. 농부가 시스템을 변경하는 것은 까다롭고 많은 노력이 필요합니다. 모든 농부가 원할 것이라고 생각합니다. 효과적으로 할 수 있는 다양한 프로세스와 관행을 학습하는 것이 핵심이 됩니다. 

Questions:

1. What is the estimated amount of plastic entering
the sea annually, and how is it visually represented?