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- 8 million tons of plastic end up floating in the waters every year.
- There is more micro plastic in the ocean than the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
- Over 100 marine animals die very year due to choking in plastic.
- More than 50% of turtles have eaten or consumed plastic.
- There is an island call The Great Garbage Patch which is filled full of garbage and is 3 times larger than France.
- There is estimated to be over 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic in the Great Garbage Patch.
- 80% of ocean pollution comes just from 20 countries.
- With each load of laundry, 750,000 microfibers are released into the ocean.
- Ocean Pollution is also called plastic oceans.
- 79% of our landfill waste ends up in the oceans.
- More than 90% of seabirds have plastic in their bodies.
- If our rate of dumping plastic into the ocean continues, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish!
- Over one million seabirds are killed by ocean pollution every year.
- 300,000 tons of plastic are in the ocean for every square kilometre
- Not 2 square kilometres of the ocean is free of plastic.