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More than 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine animals die from plastic pollution every year.
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100% of baby sea turtles have plastic in their stomachs.
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There is now 5.25 trillion macro and micro pieces of plastic in our ocean & 46,000 pieces in every square mile of ocean, weighing up to 269,000 tonnes.
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Every day around 8 million pieces of plastic makes their way into our oceans.
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is around 1.6 million square kilometers – bigger than Texas.
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The world produces 381 million tonnes in plastic waste yearly – this is set to double by 2034.
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50% of this is single-use plastic & only 9% has ever been recycled.
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79% of plastic waste is sent to landfills or the ocean, while only 9% is recycled, and 12% gets incinerated.
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88% of the sea’s surface is polluted by plastic waste.
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Between 8 to 14 million tonnes enters our ocean every year.
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The world uses over 500 billion plastic bags a year – that’s 150 for each person on Earth.
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8.3 billion plastic straws pollute the world’s beaches, but only 1% of straws end up as waste in the ocean.
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4 billion plastic microfibers per square kilometer clutter the sea.
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25 trillion macro and 51 trillion microplastics litter our oceans.Of that, 269,000 tonnes float on the surface. This is the equivalent of 1345 blue whales & 500 times the number of stars in our galaxy.
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One garbage truck of plastic is discarded into our oceans every minute.
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165 million tonnes of plastic currently circulates in Earth’s marine environments.
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Marine plastic pollution has affected 100% of marine turtles, 59% of whales, 36% of seals and 40% of seabirds of those examined.
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Over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed by ocean plastic every year.
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705,000 tonnes of discarded fishing nets drown mammals including seals – this is known as ‘ghost fishing’
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Plastic has been found as far as 11km deep, contaminating the most remote places on Earth