The inappropriate disposal of solid and liquid waste that ultimately ends in the ocean has been progressively deteriorating the quality of its waters, affecting the environmental balance, negatively impacting human health and the production of food of marine origin.
There is an unavoidable need to create a general awareness of conservation of the ocean in order to stop considering it the great dumping ground for humanity and reinforce all efforts aimed at reducing the degree of contamination, recovering the appropriate natural conditions and take preventive and corrective actions to clean the ocean and to keep them free of waste and harmful chemicals.
Only joint efforts and a more comprehensive approach may guarantee our success in this crucial endeavor. Great challenges to ocean decontamination, such as plastic islands, require a broad range of proposals along with an integral solution.