Roughly 9 billion tons of plastic has been produced since 1950 - the weight of over a billion elephants or 50 million blue whales.
Only 9% of this plastic has been recycled, 12% has been burned and 79% has ended up in our environment.
The equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters the oceans every minute.
Up to 9 in 10 seabirds 1 in 3 sea turtles and more than half of whale and dolphin populations have ingested plastic.
Studies reveal that species of crustaceans at the deepest depths of the ocean have ingested plastic.
Micro plastics are in our food, water, air and even our bodies.
We each consume the weight of a credit card worth of plastic on average per week.
Beat the plastic pollution and conserve the planet earth for human beings and other species.
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