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Domestic and international concerns about aquatic plastic debris prompted the U.S. Con¬gress to pass the Marine Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act (MPPRCA) of 1987. Title II of this Act required the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a Report to the Congress on methods for reducing plastic pollution (EPA 1990a). One section of this report to Congress discusses the types and sources of marine plastic debris, the transport and fate of this debris, and its effects on the marine environment and on human health and safety. It also provides a list of aquatic debris items that are of particular concern to the EPA. These items of EPA concern are pellets, condoms, tampons, syringes and other medical items, nets and traps, line and rope, six-pack yokes (or similar beverage yokes), and plastic bags and sheeting. |
