{"id":136153,"date":"2019-10-30T00:10:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T00:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/chinas-ocean-waste-surges-27-in-2018-ministry\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T00:10:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T00:10:15","slug":"chinas-ocean-waste-surges-27-in-2018-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/chinas-ocean-waste-surges-27-in-2018-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinas Ocean Waste Surges 27% in 2018: Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING\/SHANGHAI\u2014China dumped a total of 200.7 million cubic meters of waste into its coastal waters in 2018, a 27 percent rise on the previous year and the highest level in at least a decade, the countrys environment ministry said on Oct. 29.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the waste was dumped in the delta regions of the Yangtze and Pearl rivers, both major industrial zones on Chinas eastern coast, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment, there are some clear problems with the work on the marine ecological environment, with some regions not showing a lot of awareness or paying sufficient attention, and lacking strong initiative and dedication,\u201d Huo Chuanlin, deputy director of the MEEs marine environment department, said at a briefing in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental groups have expressed concern that China, desperate to clean up its own rivers, is dumping increasing amounts of trash in its seas instead.<\/p>\n<p>Of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/article\/1711744\/china-produces-about-third-plastic-waste-polluting-worlds-oceans-says-report\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">8.8 million tons<\/a> of plastic waste that flows down the worlds \u201csmall first order streams to large rivers that discharge to the sea,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwern.net\/docs\/economics\/2017-schmidt.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201ctop ten\u201d polluting rivers<\/a> account for 88-95 percent of plastics that flow each year into the worlds oceans.<\/p>\n<p>The six Chinese rivers on the \u201ctop ten\u201d list\u2014the Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Pearl, the Amur that borders Russia, and the headlands of the Mekong River\u2014account for about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/article\/1711744\/china-produces-about-third-plastic-waste-polluting-worlds-oceans-says-report\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3.8 million t<\/a>ons, or almost half of the worlds plastic flow into the oceans. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/feature\/2018\/06\/08\/planet-over-plastic-addressing-east-asias-growing-environmental-crisis\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yangtze<\/a> alone accounts for 1.6 million tons of plastic discharged into the oceans.<\/p>\n<p>China found an average of 24 kilograms of floating trash per 1,000 square meters of surface water last year, 88.7 percent of which was plastic, the ministry said. Plastic also dominated the waste found below the surface, including on the seabed.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Beijing published an action plan de<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/chinas-ocean-waste-surges-27-in-2018-ministry_3130624.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING\/SHANGHAI\u2014China dumped a total of 200.7 million cubic meters of waste into its coastal waters..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chinas Ocean Waste Surges 27% in 2018: Ministry - 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