According to the Xinhua news agency, Liu Youbin, spokesman for the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, 31st, the monitoring shows that compared with the micro-plastics survey conducted in other areas of the world, China's marine micro-plastics pollution is generally in the low level, with the Mediterranean Midwest and Japan Inland Sea and other areas in the same order.
On the day of the eco-Environment Department's regular press conference, Liu Youbin said that the marine micro-plastics in recent years the international community to pay more attention to a new environmental problem, the Chinese Government attaches great importance to this issue. He said that since 2016, the pilot monitoring of marine micro-plastics has been organized, and the micro-plastics pollution in key marine sea areas and marine organisms in China has been preliminarily mastered. China has carried out a special research on marine micro-plastics, 2016 ' marine micro-plastics monitoring and eco-environmental benefit assessment Research ' into the Ministry of Science and Technology national Key research and development plan for Marine Environmental security Special; The National Marine Environment Monitoring Center in 2017 set up a research centre for marine litter and micro-plastics, Focus on the marine waste and micro-plastic pollution prevention and control related technologies, methods and management countermeasures.
At the same time, China actively participates in the international cooperation and exchange of marine micro-plastics. According to the reporter understand, the micro-plastic in the ocean is a small size of plastic particles and textile fiber, known as ' PM2.5 in the Sea ', to the marine ecological security risks.
The United Nations Environment Agency and other organizations called on everyone to jointly address the environmental challenges of plastic pollution. Ocean is an important part of ecological environment system. The 2017 China Eco-Environmental Bulletin showed that in 2017 the sea area of sea water that met the first type of water quality was 96% of the area under China's jurisdiction. The water quality in inshore area is basically stable and the water quality is general. In the coastal waters, Bohai Sea, the South China Sea water quality is good, the Yellow Sea water quality is poor.
In 9 important estuaries and bays, Jiaozhouwan and Beibu Gulf water quality is good, Liaodongwan water quality is general, Bohai Bay, Yellow River mouth, Fujian Jiangkou water quality is poor, Changjiang Estuary, Hangzhouwan and Pearl River mouth water quality is very poor. In 2017, China's coastal sea level was 58 millimeters higher than its perennial (1993-2011), lower than 2016, the communique showed.
Sea levels in China's coastal waters over the past six years are at a more than 30-year high.
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EU to curb marine pollution: plastic straw and other products to be banned
According to the China New Society, in order to curb the growing pollution of the sea, the European Union 28th released a draft proposal to ban plastic straw, cotton swabs and other disposable plastic products. According to a draft published by the European Commission, included in the ' blacklist ' of disposable plastic products have a total of 10 kinds, including plastic tableware (with straws, knives and forks, etc.), cotton swabs, balloons and brackets, plastic meal boxes, plastic cups, plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic bags, potato chip bags (including wrappers) and wet paper towels.
In addition, fishing gear with plastic ingredients is also ' on the list '.
The draft said that the 10 types of disposable plastic products now account for 43% of European marine litter, with plastic fishing gear accounted for 27% of European marine litter, both accounted for more than 70% of the current European beaches, the most common plastic waste.
To prevent further deterioration of marine pollution, the scheme proposes to "classify and control" these plastic wastes, with the most stringent treatment of plastic tableware, cotton swabs and balloon brackets, which are proposed to be directly banned and replaced by more environmentally friendly products.
For plastic dining boxes and plastic cups, the scheme proposes a drastic reduction in market consumption; for plastic bottles, the plan calls for the EU Member States to meet the 90% target of recycling by 2025.
For balloons, cigarette butts, plastic bags, potato chips, wet paper towels and even fishing gear, the program to pressure manufacturers to support cleaning, recycling, waste disposal, environmental publicity and other work, but also required to change the balloon and wet paper towel packaging, express environmental impact and the proper disposal of garbage.
After the draft was announced on 28th, the European Commission said that the next European Parliament and the European Council would be audited and approved before the draft could come into force, and the European Commission urged that action be taken as soon as possible to achieve tangible progress before the European Parliament elections next May. At present, marine pollution is a headache for all countries, plastic pollution is the biggest source of pollution. According to statistics, the world now about 1000 to 20 million tons of plastic waste into the ocean, accounting for 85% of the marine litter, of which countless micro-plastic more serious environmental hazards.
Experts point out that micro-plastics not only poison the marine food chain, resulting in the death of eating marine life, and micro-plastic can exist for hundreds of years, will continue to endanger the marine ecology. China Marine Micro-plastic pollution in the low level | The Yellow Sea is poor in the East Sea
