"At the rate we're going, we could be producing as much as 1 billion tons a year within a few years," Botti said in an interview. "Various conservation and recycling initiatives have an impact, but the rate of increase isn't slowing."
The new rule in Apulia on its own will have a limited impact, analysts said. The sea off Apulia's coast has high concentrations of micro-plastics, but it comes from all over the Mediterranean.
"It's important for Apulia to take this step because it shows other regions this can be done," Francesco Tarantini, president of the Apulia chapter of Legambiente, an environmental group, told Xinhua.
"But for this kind of action to have an impact, every region has to take this step. Every country. This is a problem we can only solve if global action is taken."
According to Alessi and Botti, around 9 million tons of the world's total production of plastics ends up in oceans and seas. That's a problem, because at sea it is harder to recover and it can take hundreds, or maybe even thousands, of years to completely break down and become harmless.
"The world is playing an important, high-stakes game and the welfare of everyone depends on being able to take the right steps now," Botti said.
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