MARINE LITTERS
Title: Unveiling the marine litters - Mapping, distribution and identification in the Indian and Bangladesh parts of Sundarbans Mangroves along the Bay of Bengal
Countries: INDIA - BANGLADESH
OBJECTIVES
- To quantify the abundance and identify hotspots of plastic pollution in the Sundarbans.
- To characterize the sources and types of plastics in the Sundarbans.
- To map the transboundary distribution of plastics across the Sundarbans.
- To develop a suite of management recommendations to mitigate plastic pollution.
TEAM
LEAD
Centre for Ocean Research,
MOES National Facility for Coastal and Marine Research,
Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology (SIST), Chennai, India
CO-LEAD
Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh
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