MARINE POLLUTION

BY - PALLAB DAS
 So,
What is
Marine Pollution ?
Causes :

• Sewage
• Toxic chemicals from industries
• Land runoff
• Large scale oil spills
• Ocean mining
• Littering
 Effects :

• Destruction of biodiversity
• Contamination of the food chain
• Lack of potable water
• Disease
• Infant mortality
Ways to counter this problem :

• Reduce Your Use of Single-Use Plastics

• Participate In (or Organize) a Beach or
River Cleanup
• Support Bans
• Avoid Products Containing Microbeads
• Recycle Properly
 Some facts about Marine Pollution :
● Animals like turtles can think plastic bags are jellyfish and try to eat them which can cause
blockage in the stomach and will result in death.
● If someone eats a fish contaminated because of pollution they may become fatally ill
● The biggest source of marine pollution is land.
● Excessive nutrients from sewage outfalls and agricultural runoff have caused “dead zones”,
places with very little amounts of oxygen which can not support marine life and may result in
ecosystems collapsing.
● There are close to 500 dead zones covering more than 245,000 sq.km which is about the size
of the UK .
● Annually about a million seabirds are killed due to plastic debris and about 100,000 other
marine animals .
● Scientists believe that if we keep on how we are, our children may never see dolphins and
certain other marine life.
"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which
life first arose, should now be threatened by the
activities of one form of that life. But the sea,
though changed in a sinister way, will continue to
exist: the threat is rather to life itself."

- Rachel Carson, Marine Biologist

THANK YOU