A new study has revealed that the current tourism model is largely responsible for all the marine litter.
The study carried out by the researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), recommended utilizing coronavirus pandemic to right all the wrongs by keeping forth a new sustainable model for tourism.
The research, published in the journal Scientific Reports, showed that the recreational use of Mediterranean island beaches during the summer is responsible for up to 80 per cent of the marine litter. These include litter accumulated around beaches that generate huge amounts of microplastics through the fragmentation of larger plastic items.
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