Plastic Fish on Your Plate
It's estimated that close to 300 million tons of plastic are produced every year, more than half of which is for single-use products. Those discarded plastic bottles, bags, straws and other plastic waste end up largely in our oceans, to the tune of more than 8 million tons a year.1 Carried along with the ocean's currents, swirling gyres of "plastic smog"2 now cover about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces.3
While these heavily plastic polluted areas are often referred to as garbage patches in the sea, the problem is not limited to large debris. Perhaps even worse, it's estimated that 15 trillion to 51 trillion pieces of plastic are now in the ocean, reaching as far as the Arctic. Once broken down by the elements, the plastic will turn into microplastic particles, which are less than 5 millimeters long. To understand the extent of the pollution, the United Nations Environment Program described 51 trillion as "500 times more than the stars in our galaxy."
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