Risks and Solutions: Marine Plastics in Southeast Asia - RaSP-SEA

风险与解决方案：东南亚的海洋塑料 - RaSP-SEA

• 批准号: NE/V009354/1
• 负责人: Brendan Godley
• 金额: $ 83.21万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FV009354%2F1
• 关键词: Risks; Solutions; Marine; Plastics; Southeast

The presence and extent of plastic leaking into the environment is a system failure of monumental proportion that threatens the marine ecosystem and causes physical and chemical contamination at a global scale. It is estimated that 12 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year and this has rapidly become a global concern. The economic damage of this plastic pollution amounts to around USD13 billion per annum due to degraded environments, loss of revenue from tourism, and costs of clean up and repair. This has associated impacts on human well-being. This is a particular issue in the Southeast Asian region, which is an area of great ecological, economic, and conservation importance, with high levels of endemic species. The health of this unique biodiversity is important, because it supports a variety of livelihoods and provides food security for large populations, many of whom live below the poverty line. SE Asia has been identified as the third largest regional generator of mismanaged plastic waste in the world. If no significant efforts are made to manage this, plastic waste inputs could double by 2060.This challenge requires a regional scale approach that allows environmental, economic, technical, and social disciplines to come together to build understanding of the many factors contributing to the problem, its potential impacts, and identify how it can be solved. Our network has strong relationships with Research Institutions, National Park managers, and Environment Ministries in each country. Our vision is to reduce plastic leakage in the Southeast Asian region, supporting development of a sustainable, circular economic system for plastics. We propose an integrated, multidisciplinary project with three core aims. We will establish the sources and drivers of plastic pollution including the mapping and life cycle of plastic waste flows across the region and how it moves once in the marine environment. Secondly, we will identify the key economic, ecological, and health and wellbeing impacts of the current levels of plastic pollution that pervades this region. Thirdly, we will implement and explore interventions to mitigate and reduce plastic pollution and help progress the region to circular approaches to plastic.As we are already working with stakeholders in the region, we have some co-designed interventions ready to test immediately. These innovations range from helping streamline the monitoring of novel-technology based clean-up operations to trialling an innovative community-based scheme to recycle fishing nets. To ensure the research achieves maximum impact, the consortium partners include Southeast Asian NGOs with extensive experience of engaging coastal communities in the region and equal partnerships between UK and Southeast Asian universities to develop local research capacity through collaboration and training.

塑料泄漏到环境中的存在和程度是一个巨大的系统故障，威胁着海洋生态系统，并在全球范围内造成物理和化学污染。据估计，每年有1200万吨塑料进入海洋，这已迅速成为全球关注的问题。这种塑料污染每年造成的经济损失约为130亿美元，原因是环境退化、旅游收入损失以及清理和修复成本。这对人类福祉产生了相关影响。这是东南亚地区的一个特殊问题，该地区具有重要的生态，经济和保护意义，具有高度的特有物种。这种独特的生物多样性的健康非常重要，因为它支持各种生计，并为大量人口提供粮食安全，其中许多人生活在贫困线以下。东南亚已被确定为世界上第三大管理不善的塑料废物产生地区。如果不采取重大措施来管理这一问题，到2060年，塑料废物的投入可能会增加一倍。这一挑战需要一种区域规模的方法，使环境、经济、技术和社会学科能够结合起来，了解导致这一问题的许多因素及其潜在影响，并确定如何解决这一问题。我们的网络与每个国家的研究机构、国家公园管理者和环境部都有着密切的关系。我们的愿景是减少东南亚地区的塑料泄漏，支持可持续的塑料循环经济体系的发展。我们提出了一个综合的，多学科的项目，有三个核心目标。我们将确定塑料污染的来源和驱动因素，包括绘制整个地区塑料废物流动的地图和生命周期，以及它们一旦进入海洋环境如何移动。其次，我们将确定当前该地区塑料污染水平对经济、生态、健康和福祉的主要影响。第三，我们将实施和探索干预措施，以减轻和减少塑料污染，并帮助该地区推进塑料循环方法。由于我们已经与该地区的利益相关者合作，我们已经有一些共同设计的干预措施准备立即进行测试。这些创新包括帮助简化对基于新技术的清理行动的监测，以及试验一项创新的基于社区的回收渔网计划。为了确保研究取得最大的影响力，该联盟的合作伙伴包括东南亚非政府组织，他们在该地区的沿海社区参与方面拥有丰富的经验，英国和东南亚大学之间建立了平等的伙伴关系，通过合作和培训发展当地的研究能力。

项目成果

Plastic Pollution and Small Juvenile Marine Turtles: A Potential Evolutionary Trap

塑料污染和小型幼年海龟：潜在的进化陷阱

• DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.699521
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Frontiers in Marine Science
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Duncan E

Using citizen science to understand floating plastic debris distribution and abundance: A case study from the North Cornish coast (United Kingdom).

利用公民科学了解漂浮塑料碎片的分布和丰度：北康沃尔海岸（英国）的案例研究。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115314
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Marine pollution bulletin
• 影响因子: 5.8
• 作者: Clark L

Closing the loop or widening the gap? The unequal politics of Thailand's circular economy in addressing marine plastic pollution

关闭循环还是扩大差距？

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136218
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Cleaner Production
• 影响因子: 11.1
• 作者: Marks D

Tracking the global reduction of marine traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22423-6
• 发表时间: 2021-04-27
• 期刊: Nature communications
• 影响因子: 16.6
• 作者: March D;Metcalfe K;Tintoré J;Godley BJ
• 通讯作者: Godley BJ

Interactions between marine megafauna and plastic pollution in Southeast Asia.

东南亚海洋巨型动物与塑料污染之间的相互作用。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162502
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: The Science of the total environment
• 作者: Omeyer LCM