Cleaner seas: reducing marine pollution

In the age of the Anthropocene, the Ocean have typically been viewed as a sink for our pollution. Pollution isvaried, ranging from human-made plastics and pharmaceutical compounds, to human-altered abiotic factors,such as sediment and nutrient runo. As the global population, wealth and resource consumption continuesto grow, so too does the amount of pollution we produce. This presents us with a grand challenge whichrequires interdisciplinary knowledge to solve. While there is sucient data on the human health, socialeconomic, and environmental risks of marine pollution, a signicant lag exists when implementing strategiesto address this issue. We gathered 17 experts from the elds of social sciences, marine science, visual arts,logistics and traditional and rst nations knowledge holders to present two futures; the Business-as-usual,based on current trends and observations of growing marine pollution, and a More Sustainable Future,which imagines what our Ocean could look like if we implemented current knowledge and technologies. Weidentied priority actions that governments, industry and consumers can implement at pollution sources,vectors and sinks, over the next decade to reduce marine pollution and steer us towards the More SustainableFuture