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https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-oceans-facts-images-2436857254.html
https://www.ecowatch.com/22-facts-about-plastic-pollution-and-10-things-we-can-do-about-it-1881885971.html
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46 percent of plastics float  and it can drift for years before eventually concentrating in the ocean gyres.

Plastic in the ocean breaks down into such small segments that pieces of plastic from one liter bottle could end up on every mile of beach throughout the world.

50 percent of the plastic we use, we use just once and throw away.

Plastic accounts for around 10 percent of the total waste we generate.

44 percent of all seabird species, 22 percent of cetaceans, all sea turtle species and a growing list of fish species have been documented with plastic in or around their bodies.

Over the last ten years we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the last century.

60-90 percent of marine litter is plastic-based.

It takes 500-1,000 years for plastic to degrade.

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-Don't use plastic products
-Use reusable products
-Recycle plastic after using it.
-Don't use plastic Bottles

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-3x larger than France.
-10+ deep
-About 7 million tons
-Also there is more plastic than plankton in the Ocean.

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-REFUSE
-REUSE
-RECYCLE
-REDUCE
-RETHINK
-REPAIR

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when exposed to sunlight the plastic it is releasing toxic mixtures, which will break into micro plastics and is very hard to dispose.

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"It was only when Bob finally passed a whole lot of plastic that we realised what the issue had been: quite a few separate pieces of single-use plastic bags, also two balloons, and that was shocking to see."

In the wild, turtles are adept at catching and eating jellyfish, but floating plastic bags can easily be mistaken for the the translucent, soft-skinned invertebrates.

Ms Noble said on the WWF clip: "Plastic is such a huge threat to turtles in the wild.

"Turtles enjoy eating jellyfish and if you see a plastic bag floating in the water, it looks a lot like a jellyfish.

"Plastic does not differentiate between the size of a turtle. So a small hatchling is as vulnerable as a large turtle."

The WWF says studies estimate that more than 50 per cent of turtles globally have eaten plastic debris or other rubbish, with non-biodegradable waste becoming trapped in the marine reptiles' digestive systems and causing slow deaths.

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Plastic pollution: Stricken turtle so filled with plastic he could not dive in the ocean

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"It was only when Bob finally passed a whole lot of plastic that we realised what the issue had been: quite a few separate pieces of single-use plastic bags, also two balloons, and that was shocking to see."

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Mr. Dwaine's Sixth Period Biology Project

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8 Million Tons of plastic is dumped at sea each year. Becoming 5 massive gyres that pollute the oceans for decades !

We're treating the oceans like a trash bin. Around 80 percent of marine litter originates on land, and most of that is plastic. In 2010, 8 Million Tons of plastic trash ended up in the ocean from coastal countries: far more than the total that has been measured floating on the surface in the Ocean's. Plastic that pollutes our oceans and waterways has severe impacts on our environment and our economy. Seabirds, whales, sea turtles and other marine life are eating marine plastic pollution and dying from choking, intestinal blockage and starvation.
There are 5.25 Trillion pieces of plastic trash in the world's oceans, and each year, 8 Million Tons of plastic are added to the count. That's equivalent to one municipal garbage truck pulling up to the beach and dumping its contents every minute !
Because of the difficulties in working out the exact amount (much of it may have sunk), the scientists said the true figure could be as much as 12.7 Million Tons polluting the oceans each year. The figure is expected to rise each year. Between 2010 and 2025, some 155 Million Tons of plastic could be dumped into the ocean, enough to fill 100 bags per foot of coastline.

Dr. Jambeck - Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia - said: " a global action is needed to tackle the problem ! "

Ellen MacArthur Foundation - Davos 2016 :
"Decades of plastic production have already caused environmental problems. The report says that every year "at least 8 Million Tons of plastics leak into the ocean - which is equivalent to dumping the contents of one garbage truck into the ocean every minute. If no action is taken, this is expected to increase to two per minute by 2030 and four per minute by 2050. In a business-as-usual scenario, the ocean is expected to contain one Ton of plastic for every three Tons of fish by 2025, and by 2050, more plastics than fish (by weight)."

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We're treating the oceans like a trash bin. Around 80 percent of marine litter originates on land, and most of that is plastic. In 2010, 8 Million Tons of plastic trash ended up in the ocean from coastal countries: far more than the total that has been measured floating on the surface in the Ocean's.