Issues Surrounding Waste in the Ocean and the Potential Solutions

Our Plastic Ocean
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Our Plastic Ocean
The Issues Surrounding Waste in the Ocean.
Plastics are durable, but this is a terrible thing, especially for the ocean. Over 300 million tons of plastics are produced globally, including 5 billion plastic bags and a billion other plastic bottles, with production expected to triple by 2050 when the global population is 10 billion. Only half of these are recycled, whereas the rest are singly used and thrown away, ending on land and in the oceans. On the Lord Howe Island near Australia and the Midway Island in the Pacific (90% of seabirds have swallowed plastics), migratory seabirds bring back plastics picked ...