Each year, more than 17 billion pounds of plastic leaks into marine environments. That’s the equivalent of a garbage truck full of plastic every minute.
Plastic pollution represents a threat to marine biodiversity.
Injury or death caused by entanglement with plastic packaging is a visible effect of the impact of plastic crisis. The ingestion of plastic particles (‘microplastics’) by the likes of turtles, sea birds and marine mammals, leading to starvation on account of intestinal blockage, is another.
