Talk:Marine pollution

marine pollution

Hi I study European Environmental Law and Policy, and I am currently working on a presentation focusing on Marine Pollution.

does anyone have any material on the subject??

Regards,

Daniela Cassar, MaltaBold text

If the primary author will Google "source of mercury in oceans" he will find many articles that say that human-caused pollution is not a feasible explanation for the mercury concentrations that are found in oceans or in the flesh of oceanic fish.

Numerous researchers have found that concentrations found in fish haven't changed in decades (some have found none in 100 years, thanks, I assume, to the existence of old tins of fish somewhere that were made available for study). Hydrothermal vents are thought to be the principal source.

--71.217.23.46 07:38, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

This page doesn't seem to meet Wikipedia criteria. There are no references and the article itself is seriously flawed in suggesting that marine pollution is caused by illegal immigrants. I don't have a lot of time available at present, but as it stands, this page really needs a complete rewrite to include more fact, appropriate references and removal of emotive language.

Lotaresco 15:20, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Redirect from Effects of Ocean Pollution

I've redirected Effects of Ocean Pollution here, as I couldn't see any reason for independent article at that title, previous content at [1] was mainly centred around reference at [2] which I'm noting here in case its useful for this article -Hunting dog (talk) 21:18, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Solutions section

PBIO4181j Evaluation The material in this article is very well organized, you can find specific information on the topic you are looking for without having to scroll through the entire article. There is a broad coverage of the different forms of marine pollution, not just an overview. Each subcategory has a description of the subject and specific examples. The citations came from reliable sources, such as the US Department of Commerce, but there is one article I found that could be useful in the underwater noise section "http://www.nature.com/articles/srep37979". I don't think any assumptions were made, however there were a few proposed solutions to the problems. One section that I thought was well written was the toxins section. It had a thorough description and a lot of specific examples. A few sections I felt were lacking were the underwater noise and adaptation/ mitigation sections. They lacked more of the specific examples and could use a few more sources, one of which I posted above. One section that I thought could use some work was the land runoff section. It was extremely short with no specific examples. I do not have any sites to reference for that section, but I suggest looking into different locations and seeing if they have any data, such as lake St. Mary's in Ohio. They had a lot of farm runoff that produced harmful algal blooms a few years ago but no one has heard of it. Alexis redmond (talk) 13:45, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Evaluation

There are around a few links don't work (e.g. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0025326X17301558) etc. and have copyright issue that the website would not show the full article. There is an unbalance distribution between some subtitles as some include detailed physics and chemistry explanation while the others do not and are underrepresented.— ssss

This article is very well written and organized with a fairly neutral standpoint. There is information about many different forms of marine pollution, not focusing on one form. I checked a few references and they were peer-reviewed scholarly articles. There was one reference (reference number 92) that redirected me to “page not found” here: http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=659&ArticleID=6897&l=en Every time there is a fact or statistic in the article, it is backed up by a source in the references section. Many of the articles are from 2004-2009, which could be updated to more recent sources. I think the section on land run-off could be expanded and backed up by many facts about how farm run-off causes a great deal of marine pollution. But for the most part, this is a concise and valid article. Kenzie M (talk) 05:17, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Direct discharge (top countries)

Since China has large population, so it will be more fair to rank the countries by discharge per coastal population. Jambeck et al (2015) also give information of coastal population, so discharge per population can be calculated. However, there're only information from top 20 countries ranked by total discharge, while the rest (from total 192 studied countries) are missing. Science mag (via [3]) offer the data but need login. Could anyone get those data? --Ans (talk) 09:57, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

CSV data of new ranking,

Rank (by discharge (upper bound) per coastal people)	Original rank (by total discharge)	Country	Coastal pop. [millions]	Waste gen. Rate [kg/ppd]	Plastic marine debris [MMT/year] (lower bound)	Plastic marine debris [MMT/year] (upper bound)	Plastic marine debris [kg/year/coastal people] (lower)	Plastic marine debris [kg/year/coastal people] (upper)
1	5	Sri Lanka	14.6	5.1	0.24	0.64	16.4383561644	43.8356164384
2	11	South Africa	12.9	2	0.09	0.25	6.976744186	19.3798449612
3	7	Egypt	21.8	1.37	0.15	0.39	6.880733945	17.8899082569
4	8	Malaysia	22.9	1.52	0.14	0.37	6.1135371179	16.1572052402
5	6	Thailand	26	1.2	0.15	0.41	5.7692307692	15.7692307692
6	1	China	262.9	1.1	1.32	3.53	5.0209205021	13.4271586154
7	4	Vietnam	55.9	0.79	0.28	0.73	5.0089445438	13.0590339893
8	15	Pakistan	14.6	0.79	0.07	0.19	4.7945205479	13.0136986301
9	13	Algeria	16.6	1.2	0.08	0.21	4.8192771084	12.6506024096
10	9	Nigeria	27.5	0.79	0.13	0.34	4.7272727273	12.3636363636
11	17	Burma	19	0.44	0.07	0.18	3.6842105263	9.4736842105
12	3	Philippines	83.4	0.5	0.28	0.75	3.3573141487	8.9928057554
13	18*	Morocco	17.3	1.46	0.05	0.12	2.8901734104	6.936416185
14	19	North Korea	17.3	0.6	0.05	0.12	2.8901734104	6.936416185
15	2	Indonesia	187.2	0.52	0.48	1.29	2.5641025641	6.891025641
16	14	Turkey	34	1.77	0.07	0.19	2.0588235294	5.5882352941
17	10	Bangladesh	70.9	0.43	0.12	0.31	1.6925246827	4.3723554302
18	16	Brazil	74.7	1.03	0.07	0.19	0.93708166	2.5435073628
19	12	India	187.5	0.34	0.09	0.24	0.48	1.28
20	20	United States	112.9	2.58	0.04	0.11	0.354295837	0.9743135518

--Ans (talk) 10:36, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Removed further reading list

I've removed the further reading list as I don't think it was adding value.

• Cookson, Clive (Feb. 2015). Oceans choke as plastic waste pours in at 8 million tonnes a year (free registration required), The Financial Times
• Ahn, YH; Hong, GH; Neelamani, S; Philip, L and Shanmugam, P (2006) Assessment of Levels of coastal marine pollution of Chennai city, southern India. Water Resource Management, 21(7), 1187–1206
• Daoji, L and Dag, D (2004) Ocean pollution from land-based sources: East China sea. AMBIO – A Journal of the Human Environment, 33(1/2), 107–113
• Dowd, B; Press, D; Huertos, M (November 2008). "Agricultural nonpoint source water pollution policy: The case of California's Central Coast". Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 128 (3): 151–161. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2008.05.014.
• Gioia, Rosalinda; Eckhardt, Sabine; Breivik, Knut; Jaward, Foday; Prieto, Ailette; Nizzeto, Luca; Jones, Kevin C. (January 2011). "Evidence for Major Emissions of PCBs in the West African Region". Environmental Science & Technology. 45 (4): 1349–1355. Bibcode:2011EnST...45.1349G. doi:10.1021/es1025239. PMID 21226526.
• Laws, Edward A. (2000-09-07). Aquatic Pollution: An Introductory Text. ISBN 978-0-471-34875-7.
• Slater, D (2007) Affluence and effluents. Sierra 92(6), 27
• UNEP/GPA (2006) The State of the Marine Environment: Trends and processes United Nations Environment Programme, Global Programme of Action, The Hague. 2006 ISBN 92-807-2708-7
• UNEP (2007) Land-based Pollution in the South China Sea. UNEP/GEF/SCS Technical Publication No 10
• Judith S. Weis: Marine pollution: what everyone needs to know. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-999668-1 EMsmile (talk) 04:01, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Which article should have the bulk of information about microplastics in oceans?

Please contribute to the discussion on where the bulk of the content on microplastics in oceans should be located. Currently it's spread over several articles, and I would like to consolidate it in one (and then link from the others to the consolidated location). Either in this article, or in microplastics or in a stand-alone article. The discussion is here. EMsmile (talk) 03:24, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Update: I have now consolidated everything in plastic soup and we are now discussing a new name for that article. Please go to the talk page of plastic soup if you'd like to contribute. EMsmile (talk) 12:38, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Update: the article that used to be called "plastic soup" is now Marine plastic pollution. EMsmile (talk) 22:32, 24 May 2022 (UTC)