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… VITAL WASTE GRAPHICS 3 This is a publication of the Secretariat of … of its frontiers or boundaries. Cover illustration Waste Body Burden ‘Metro Map’. Source: Silicon Valley Toxics … By weight, from 1995 level Materials and energy recovery COLLECTION TARGETS RECYCLING TARGETS 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 …

… to almost every human activity but specially mismanaged waste. These fragments are of different polymer types and of … corrosion and degradation (Boucher and Friot 2017) PLASTIC WASTE MILLION TONNES/YEAR PRIMARY MICROPLASTICS MILLION … It will be necessary to harmonize and standardize data collection methodologies to allow for sharing and use of data …

… and microplastics found in the sea may be determined as ‘waste’ as defined under the Convention, although not all will … a year. Of the estimated 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste produced since the 1950s, only 9% has been recycled and … waste entering the sea is likely to arise where waste collection systems are ineffective or even non-existent. …

… to the ocean floor. A less significant share of plastic waste is carried on ocean currents and can accumulate in … provides a harmonized organizational framework for the collection of globally comparable POPs monitoring data to … marine plastic litter and microplastics. The Household Waste Partnership was established under the Basel Convention, …