{"id":130860,"date":"2025-05-09T20:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/sharp-decline-in-plastic-garbage-in-australia-news-climate\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T20:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:01:54","slug":"sharp-decline-in-plastic-garbage-in-australia-news-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/sharp-decline-in-plastic-garbage-in-australia-news-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp decline in plastic garbage in Australia – news – Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The case summarized a research project in Australia has shown a decrease of 39% in plastic garbage on the beaches over the last ten years. The researchers also found 16 percent in several places where there was no garbage at all. The most common garbage was parts of hard plastic products of polystyrene (24 percent) and cigarette butts (22 percent). Despite the positive trend in Australia, the plastic garbage appears to increase worldwide, which shows that up to 53 million tonnes of plastic will end up in rivers, lakes and the sea by 2030. Only about 10 percent of the plastic in the world is recycled, with the rest made of oil products. Researcher Britta Denise Hardesty believes that the increase in people picking up garbage can be the result of increased awareness of plastic pollution. The summary is made by a Ki service from Openai. The content is quality assured by news’s \u200b\u200bjournalists before publishing. Researchers have monitored six different areas (see maps) in Australia between 2022 and 2024. They have registered both the quantity and type of garbage in the different places. In each of the six areas, they have easily been in dozens of places at a distance of 100 kilometers from the city. And the result is surprisingly positive. On Australia’s beaches, the amount of plastic garbage has decreased by 39 percent over the last ten years. This is evident from a research article published in Marine Pollution Bulletin. – The clear message is that we do much better as a country, says Britta Denise Hardesty, one of the researchers behind the study to SBS. – We found about a piece of garbage for every four or fifth steps that took on the beach. It is a sharp decline from ten years ago when we did the same type of study, Hardesty continues. The study confirms a positive trend from 2022. Then a research project showed a decrease of 29 percent in plastic garbage along Australia’s coasts. In addition to finding less garbage, there were also 16 percent more places where they found no garbage at all. The six areas examined in Australia with what was the most common garbage discovery. Most hard plastic and sniper The overview showed that most of the parts of products in polystyrene hard plastic (24 percent) and cigarette butts (22 percent). What kind of garbage the researchers found varied for the six areas. On the beaches there were most snaps, while at Alice Springs in the middle of the country there were most soft drinks and beer boxes. The World Health Organization says that every year around 4500,000,000,000 – 4.5 trillions – snipers where they should not have been thrown. Cigarette butts contain microplasty and are the second largest source of plastic pollution in the world. Shannon Mead is the leader of No More Butts, an organization working on getting rid of garbage from tobacco. – Many people do not realize that snipers are garbage, or they think it is degradable or they think it is so small that it does not matter, says Mead. One of the 4,500 billion snaps that are thrown into nature every year. Photo: AP 100 million Norwegian snipers Also in Norway, cigarette butts are one of the biggest garbage categories. In 2021, around 100 million snipers were cleaned up. And that’s just what was cleared by the public, writes Norwaste. Estimates are that around 25 million snipers are thrown annually along Norwegian motorways. In addition, around 6.8 million snipers come, writes Norwaste. Marina Debris with her sculpture “A drop in the sea, says 7.8 billion people,” made of garbage, which she showed at an exhibition in Sydney in 2022. Photo: Reuters most plastic garbage almost 15,000 kilometers of Australia’s coast is beaches. It is almost half of the total coastal stretch. Three -quarters of all the garbage found on the beaches are plastic garbage. Of the garbage, the soft and flexible plastic is used to wrap food, the most dangerous for wildlife. – To understand how much and what types of plastic garbage ends up in the environment gives us important data to find out how to prevent it from ending up there in the first place, says Steph Brodie at CSiro. Possible decline in Norway The Trade Environmental Fund is the organization that receives the money we pay in fees on plastic bags. – All the money we get is used to solve environmental challenges related to plastic, says manager Cecilie Lind. Photo: Max Emanuelson\/Trade Environmental Fund Cecillie Lind in the Trade Environment Fund says that the figures for Australia only apply to plastic packaging, while along the Norwegian coast there is also a lot of other types of plastic, including the fishing industry. – We know this because the Trade Environmental Fund runs the world’s largest professional clearing campaign along the Norwegian coast (clearing on time) and now we have actually cleared a stretch that corresponds to from Norway to Australia and back again, she says she says that there are indications that the amount of plastic waste is a bit on the way down, but that it is very difficult to get an overview of in Norway with the long coin. We also know that fewer people use the sea as a garbage can, so there is a lot of historical waste that has been cleared over the last 10 years and that does not return, says Lind. In October, workers in October gathered thousands of small “tar balls” that were washed up at Coogee Beach in Sydney. Photo: AFP Huge amounts of plastic worldwide, the plastic garbage looks to increase. Researchers say that today’s policy is not enough to overcome the problem- the BBC writes that estimates show that in the year 2030, up to 53 million tonnes of plastic will end up in rivers, lakes and the sea. Last week, the Chinese Tsinghua University published a study in Nature showing that only about 10 percent of the plastic in the world is recycled. The rest is made of oil products. Despite the growing pollution of plastic, the world’s land failed to reach an agreement when they met before Christmas in Busan in South Korea to make a global plastic agreement. Britta Denise Hardesty says she has seen a clear increase in people cares, that they pick up garbage. – I think it comes from the fact that more people are aware of the situation and the problems that plastic leads to in the environment, says Hardesty. Maps showing the places in Australia where it was easy for garbage Photo: CSIRO Published 09.05.2025, at. 21.43
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