If you were inclined, you could spend all day shouting ever more overwhelming plastic stats at passersby. For instance every day eight million pieces of plastic wash into the ocean, meaning that there are something like 5.25 trillion pieces floating in the sea, with a weight as heavy as about 20 Eiffel towers. Close to 700 species of marine life are facing extinction due to the increase in plastic pollution; while nearly half of all plastic ever made has been produced since 2000.
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