Assignment on Global Governance
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Added on 2020-10-23
Assignment on Global Governance
Added on 2020-10-23
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Global Governance
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................11. Challenges faced by Britain....................................................................................................12. Current position.......................................................................................................................13. Recommendation.....................................................................................................................2CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTIONFrom last few years, our oceans are slowly turning into plastic soup which is influencingon oceanic life is very terrible. It is now entering into every level of the sea & ending up in theseafood on our plates. This report will cover challenges faced by Britain due to plastics in oceanand recommendation to reduce it. 1. Challenges faced by Britain.It has been determined that, one of the major cause behind rise in plastics in oceans iswaste which is dumped into the seas. Britain need to take necessary actions, as experts launcheda warning that the large amount of plastic waste will be high in upcoming decade (Breuer, 2016).Rob Opsomer from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation said that, “Marine plastic pollution inBritain is considered as a huge problem as 12.7 million tonnes of plastic is floating in UK'socean”. Nowadays, there are fast growing signs which denotes harm to animals that eat plastics,which include fishes, birds and mammals. The situation is led to death of animals whichdisrupted entire ecosystem.However, it has been discovered that the problem is far worse because due to sunlight &waves, plastic breaks down into tiny particles called micro-plastics, which further attracts toxins,which means a poison produced from plant or animal (Dris, Imhof, and Laforsch, 2015). Also,the digestive system of sea birds as well as fishes is also getting affected by large pieces ofplastics. Moreover, recent EU-wide survey showed that over 80% of tourist visitors observetrashes of plastics on every coast. Further, the organisers of Earth Day 2018 states that, 'in theUK during 2010, around 50% of local authorities undertook beach cleaning with annual cost of£15.5 million.' 2. Current position.Since the ban on plastics came into force, waste being exported to Malaysia from UK.Professor Ed Hill, director of National Oceanography Centre said that, it is now time to changeuses of plastics in daily routine activities of society. Recently the parliament in UK has discloseda package of measure to virtually get rid of use plastics from Westminster by next year. It hasbeen announced by several retailers that they are taking measures to tackle pollution of plasticsfrom the oceans. Parliament has also stated that they will stop buying plastics which are non-recyclable. Apparently, to reduce plastic waste reusable plastic bottles or bags will be made1
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