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- Our global use of plastic is expected to double in the next 20 years.
- Half of all plastic produced is used to make items designed to be used once then thrown away.
- 1-million water bottles are sold every minute worldwide.
- 500 billion plastic bags are consumed on this planet every year.
- In the ocean, plastic breaks up over time into tinier pieces, no larger than a grain of rice (5 mm) called microplastics.
- Ocean Wise® scientists are finding them in stomachs of tiny, drifting animals (zooplankton) that support the ocean food chain. Microplastic can suffocate tiny animals, block their stomachs, or cut their insides.
- Microplastics have been found in the seafood we eat.
- More than half a million marine mammals a year die from entanglement every year.
