{"id":30702,"date":"2026-04-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=30702"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:00:13","slug":"measures-reduce-plastic-pollution-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/measures-reduce-plastic-pollution-oceans\/","title":{"rendered":"Measures to reduce plastic pollution in our oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How can we reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in our oceans every year? There are measures that depend on governments, but there are also everyday actions that can reduce our impact on the environment.<\/b><\/h3>\n

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As 11Onze agent M\u00f2nica Cornudella alerts, <\/span>many fish drown every year<\/b> because they mistake a plastic bag for a jellyfish and try to eat it, or because they get trapped in the plastic rings that hold soft drink cans.<\/span><\/p>\n

The dumping of <\/span>plastics in the seas and oceans is a problem that will last because they are products that take a long time to degrade.<\/b> For example, a plastic bag takes between 20 and 50 years, but, as Cornudella says, the dreaded plastic bottles “take about 500 years” and a tyre that has ended up in the sea can take “up to 1,000 years”.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is estimated that by 2050 “there will be more plastics than fish in our seas and oceans” because every year “<\/span>between 8 and 15 million tonnes of plastic waste is dumped into the sea<\/b>“, as the 11Onze agent explains. In economic terms, the dumping of plastics in the sea generates damage to marine ecosystems worth 11,800 million euros, according to the United Nations environmental programme.<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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