Plastic Waste Causes Financial Damage of $13 Billion to Marine Ecosystems Each Year

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Plastic Waste Causes Financial Damage of US$13 Billion to Marine Ecosystems Each Year as Concern Grows over Microplastics

June 23, 2014
United Nations Environment Programme

Nairobi - Concern is growing over the threat that widespread plastic waste poses to marine life, with conservative estimates of the overall financial damage of plastics to marine ecosystems standing at US$13 billion each year, according to two reports released on the opening day of the first United Nations Environment Assembly.