https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/plastic-pollution

The problem with plastic trash is that there is far too much in the ocean because plastic makes up more than 12 percent of the Municipal solid waste stream, which is a dramatic increase from 1960. Every US resident is buying plastic which only about 8 percent actually gets recycled and in 1995, the Ecology Center and the Berkeley Plastics Task Force studied plastic waste issues and provided the city of Berkeley with data to help the city with a recycling program. 

Plastic trash harms physical habitats, transports chemical pollutants, threatens aquatic life, and interferes with human uses like rivers, marine, and coastal environments. Out of each kind of trash, plastic is the greatest potential to harm the environment, humans, and wildlife. Trash travels through oceans and that washes up onto the beach where birds and other animals try to eat that. The trash that doesn’t make it to the beach sharks, fish, dolphins, sea turtles, whales, and species like that are in danger. We can prevent all of that a little at a time by not throwing trash off our boats, not leaving trash on the beach to be washed up into the ocean, dont throw trash out of your car, out of your house, on the ground because when you do that and a storm comes that will blow all of your plastic into the ocean or anywhere that animals would eat it.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

Plastic in the world's oceans is not just affecting animals it is affecting us and this is how. All of the trash we throw away all ends up in the ocean which is causing birds and fish to eat it thinking it's food. Once the birds or fish eat the plastic it sits in their stomach and they think they're full but they are really starving.Also when fish eat the plastic it can be bad because if we eat fish it can get into us. It also can get in soil and cause effects on growing food.

Ever since the early 1950s plastic pollution has been a problem. These bottles are made out of plastics these plastics came from fossil fuels this problem has been happening worldwide but the plastic in the ocean are mainly from places that don’t have trash services and have to find their way of disposing of recycling and one of the ways is just throwing their trash into rivers which rivers lead to the ocean but it's not all their fault there is a low recycling rate all across the world and all that waste goes to the ocean or dumps and wildlife thinks these plastics are food so they end up eating the plastic so it's bad for the environment wildlife and humans if we don't do something soon we might not make it to 2060 because by 2050 our plastic pollution rate will be up 30% by then we might just be eating up pure plastic instead of actual food because the amount of plastic wildlife consumes.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

Fact 2:  While plastic has many valuable uses, we have become addicted to single-use or disposable plastic. Around the world, one million plastic bottles are bought every minute, while 5 trillion single-use plastic bags are used worldwide every year. half of all plastic produced is used only once and then thrown away.

Fact 3: Since the 1950s, the rate of plastic production has grown faster than that of any other material. We’ve also seen a shift away from the production of durable plastic, and towards plastics that are meant to be thrown away after a single-use.

Plastic pollution facts and information - National Geographic