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At the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, the United Nations designated June 8 as "World Ocean Day". This year's theme of Ocean Day is "innovation for a sustainable ocean".

The ocean is the lung of the earth, providing oxygen for human beings;

Ocean is the key of ecosystem, which contains abundant resources;

The sea is the cradle of life....

However, human activities are making the ocean world pay a terrible price. Each of us has the obligation to protect the marine environment and seriously manage the marine resources.

According to a 2015 study, 8.8 million tons of plastic are flowing into the ocean every year. At this rate, the total weight of plastic in the ocean will exceed the weight of fish by 2050.

According to the research of American ocean conservation organization, 80% of marine plastics come from land and 20% come from ocean based. The land-based plastics mainly come from the plastic wastes generated on land, which are washed into the ocean by rivers or coasts. The sea-based plastics mainly come from the abandoned objects of marine operations, such as abandoned fishing nets and ships.

More than half of the land-based marine plastics come from five fast-growing countries, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Another study pointed out that marine plastics are mainly (90%) brought in by ten rivers in the world, four of which are in China, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Haihe River and the Pearl River.

Definition

Definition of the Oceanplastics

Oceanplastics is a general name for plastic waste that ends in the ocean or has a high probability of ending there and causes the negative impacts to the ocean environment. Based on its status, it can be categorized as:

· In-the-ocean plastics the plastics that have already existed in the ocean. The best way to mitigate their pollution to the ocean is to collect them back and make use of them. Based on the difficulty level to collect them back, they can be defined into three different sub-categories:

o Near-shore plastics – the floating (within the depth of 200 meters) oceanplastics that are within the 22.2 kilometers (the concept of territorial waters concept) of the coastline. It’s relatively easy to collect this part of oceanplastics and their impact to the ocean environment will most likely affect human beings.

o High-sea plastics – the floating (within the depth of 200 meters) oceanplastics that are more than 22.2 kilometers away from the coastline. All the plastics in the garbage patches this type of oceanplastics. They have the huge volume but to recovery them is not easy.

o Deep-sea plastics – the oceanplastics that exist in the depth of greater than 200 meters. It’s very difficult to recover this part of the oceanplastics and most of them have already decomposed and are existing in the form of microplastic, which cause the ingestion harm to the ocean animals.

· Oceanbound plastics the plastic waste that has not reached the ocean yet, however, if it is not collected and well-managed, it will enter into the ocean within a year. These oceanplastics include:

o Shore plastics – the plastic waste that is disposed by the consumers on the beaches, or the plastic waste that has already been brought to the coastline area by the rivers, wind, rain, etc.

o Waterway plastics – the plastic waste enters the rivers, lakes already

o Mismanaged platics – the plastic waste generated within 50 kilometers of the coastline and there is no effective plastics recovery and recycling systems of post-consumer plastic waste in this area. Because of the lack of the good waste management system, this plastic waste has a high probability to be flushed to the ocean by the natural forces, such as rain, wind, etc.