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1. plastic bottles can last for 450 years in marine environment
2. recent studies found marine plastic pollution in 100% of sea turtles
3. 100,000 marine mammals and turtles/1 million sea birds killed annually from plastic pollution
4. plastic makes up about 60-90% of marine debris
5. over 150 plastic bottles litter each mile of beaches in the UK
6. 5.25 trillion pieces of macro and micro plastic in open ocean
7. every day about 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our oceans
8. scientists discovered microplastics embedded deep in arctic ice

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four concrete steps to reduce plastic pollution in the ocean:
1. use a reusable water bottle
2. don't use plastic straws
3. use cloth shopping plastic bags
4. don't litter

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when plastic in the ocean is exposed to sunlight, the plastic breaks up into thousands of tiny fragments which is called "microplastic".

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https://www.sas.org.uk/our-work/plastic-pollution/plastic-pollution-facts-figures/

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1. three times size of France!
2. two times size of Texas!
3. contains 79 million tons of plastic
4. 16 times larger than previously thought by scientists...

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poor little guy!