[OANNES Foro] Wider Impacts of Fertilizer and Plastic Pollution on Oceans Top This Year's Priority Issues in UNEP Year Book

[Mario Cabrejos]

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Wider Impacts of Fertilizer and Plastic Pollution on Oceans
Top This Year's Priority Issues in UNEP Year Book

UNEP Year Book 2011 Spotlights Urgent Need for Fundamental Green Economy Shift

26th Session of UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum 21-24 February

Nairobi, 17 February 2011. Massive amounts of phosphorus-a valuable fertilizer needed to feed a growing global population-are being lost to the oceans as result of inefficiencies in farming and a failure to recycle wastewater.

Phosphorus pollution, along with other uncontrolled discharges, such as nitrogen and sewage, are linked with a rise in algal blooms which in turn harm water quality, poison fish stocks and undermine coastal tourism.

In the United States alone, the costs are estimated to be running at over US$2 billion a year, indicating that globally and annually the damage may run into the tens of billion of dollars.
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