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The Ocean and Waste Disposal |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE ESSAY |
| Author: Michael A. Champ |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 1,907 Words, 11,854 Characters |
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From the earliest times the ocean has been used for the disposal of civilization's wastes. Refuse from his has always been thrown overboard. Fish processing wastes - fish parts, culls, and inedible species - have been discarded into the sea since the time humankind began to fish. In the United Kingdom, the practice of ocean dumping of sewage sludge was initiated in 1887 with the dumping of the city of London's wastes into the outer Thames estuary. In the United States, the first dumping of sewage sludge occurred in 1924 in the New York Bight. The ocean historically provided an economical NIMBY (Not in My Back Yard) outlet for waste disposal.
Around the mid-1970s, as the public became aware of coastal pollution problems, a "protected status" toward the ocean began to emerge in r...
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...nt to the needs of our land dwelling species, the understanding of our vast oceanic resources must become the major topic of future research and development. As never before, scientists, environmentalists, and investors must cooperate in this essential endeavor. When we speak of space, let us not forget that the development of ocean space and its resources must be humankind's next priority.
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