A recent study released by the 5 Gyres Institute estimates that there are currently 5.25 trillion plastic particles in the ocean. 

• Sources of this waste are wide ranging including plastic fishing nets, food and beverage containers, microbeads from personal care items, cosmetics, straws, and bags just to name a few..
• It is estimated that ingestion of plastic kills 1 million marine birds and 100,000 marine animals each year.
• It is more than a tremendous plastic problem in our food chain, plastics entangle marine animals and make movement impossible - killed by plastic bottles, can holders, plastic based fishing nets, because we have failed to recycle properly.
• Only 12% of our plastic waste will be recycled  the rest goes into landfills or into the ocean.. 

https://www.5gyres.org/faq

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg14

http://www.twohandsproject.org/

http://www.5gyres.org/ 

http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/pft/2015/9/5/midway-albatross-an-icon-of-the-plastic-pollution-problem

http://www.cleancoastcollective.org/

 
http://www.seashepherd.org/

 
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/how-plastic-is-harming-animals-the-planet-and-us/

http://www.trashisfortossers.com/

http://www.parley.tv/#fortheoceans

https://www.oceandecade-conference.com/en/creating-the-ocean-we-want.html

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