Plastics and pollution.


- Plastic waste causes permanent pollution. Ordinary plastic cups do not perish in the ground in 20 to 30 years.

- In the United States alone, 3 million plastic bottles are used every hour.

- Plastic waste dumped into the sea kills about one million sea creatures every year.

- About 4 billion kilograms of plastic waste is dumped in the oceans every year.

- The fishing industry dumps 15,000 tons of plastic waste into the sea every year.

- To this day, everything made of plastic around the world still exists.

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