Much of our unwanted plastic ends up in the ocean around 8 million tonnes of it every year in fact.
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Plastic rubbish doesn t biodegrade.
Every day around 8 million pieces of plastic makes.
Do you know your microplastics from your single use.
And as they take a long time to degrade.
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But half of the plastic we produce is designed to be used just once and then thrown away and even plastic that can be reused or recycled gets chucked out too.
100 of baby sea turtles have plastic in their stomachs.
Experts think that by 2050 the amount of plastic in the ocean will weigh more than the amount of fish in the ocean.
In 2014 or 315 bottles per person.
The facts about plastic pollution.
According to the container recycling institute 100 7 billion plastic beverage bottles were sold in the u s.
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Find out lots of facts about plastic in the ocean.
Shocking ocean plastic statistics.
A vast ocean sieving expedition across the atlantic has revealed that there is as much as 21 million tonnes of plastic particles in the ocean much higher than estimated.
All the bbc s news on plastic pollution it is estimated debris takes about six years to reach the centre of the north pacific gyre from the coast of the us and about a year from japan.
As producer on the original planet earth for bbc and discovery mark oversaw its two underwater episodes shallow seas and freshwater.
All animals whether they live on land or in the sea can be hurt by plastic.
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Scientists are very worried about plastic that ends up in the ocean.
It can stay in the ocean for thousands of years if it isn t recycled.
Over the last ten years we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the last century.
Plastic rubbish can be incredibly harmful to fish and other sea life.
Mark series produced ocean giants a three part series on whales and dolphins and produced two intrepid episodes for south wild pacific.
Plastic is an amazing man made material it s cheap to produce and has many uses.
There is now 5 25 trillion macro and micro pieces of plastic in our ocean 46 000 pieces in every square mile of ocean weighing up to 269 000 tonnes.
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