INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR MASTER OF

MARINE CONSERVATION

STEPHANIE JASINDA
230110220129
PRODI PERIKANAN
KELAS C
Management and Reduction of Marine Debris as Conservation Efforts:
An International Law Perspective by A. Gusman Siswandi

Microplastics and its pollutions are such a complex things to deal with.
Everybody uses varied kind of plastics on their daily life almost
everyday. These varied kind of plastics become the main problem to
marine debris. There a couple of main international instruments that
keep pushing to decrease the accumulation of marine debris from the
eye of law, for example United Nasions Convention on the Law of the
Sea (UNCLOS), 1982. In Indonesia itself, there is a national policy on
marine debris. In 2020, Indonesia held a program of National Plastic
Waste Reduction Strategic.

But, in conclusion, there should be an action from science and

technology to help marine areas clean from marine debris.
Marine Plastics Debris: Distribution, Abundance, Impact, and now It is
on Our Tummy by M. Reza Cordova, Ph.D
Plastics is a material that capable to molded or shaped. Based on UNEP
(2018), 79% of plastic waste are existing somewhere on earth and these
plastics makes an impact on every aspects of oceans, including the
ecosystem, marine biota since they didn’t know the difference between
food or plastics that became micro, and even to us, humans.

Microplastics might not have a huge impact because it is not that

obvious. But is it true? In fact, microplastics have high risk for entering
the food web. As phytoplankton become the producers of food chain in
oceans or sea ecosystem and these creature already contained
microplastics in its body system, it definitely would distribute to first,
second, third, and top consumer such as humans. And as as human, we
use personal care products and even a synthetic clothing fibers that are
a primary sources of microplastics. Due to lack of research, the real
consequences of microplastics are mostly unknown.
Microplastics Dsitribution in The Surface Freshwater from The Case
Study of Indonesia and Japan by Koji Arizono, Kumamoto University.

Global plastics production from 1950 to 2014 had increased 20 times,

where in 2014 plastics production are 310 million metric tons (MTs),
according to WEF (2016). According to Lembert & Wagner (2018), 1228
manuscripts containing the term microplastics, only 3,7% that contain
the term of freshwater.
The citarum river plays a vital role in supplying freshwater for Jakarta.
However, due to its heavy microplastics pollution, this river become the
most polluted river globally.

Jatinangor, 30 Agustus 2022