Hello everyone, Save the ocean came back after a lot of time.
If you didn't see our website yet this is the link:
Obviously we came back with some interesting facts, that maybe you have already heard
These are the facts we found on internet:
About 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic has been produced since the 1950s – the weight of roughly a billion elephants or 47 million blue whales.
Only about 9% of this plastic has been recycled, 12% has been burned and the remaining 79% has ended up in landfills or the environment.
Up to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic enters the oceans every year.
The equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters the oceans every minute.
There are five trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans – enough to circle the Earth over 400 times.
Who is most affected by plastic pollution ?
Scientists have documented 700 marine species affected by ocean plastic.
Up to 9 of 10 seabirds, 1 in 3 sea turtles and more than half of whale and dolphin species have ingested plastic.
In the Canadian Arctic, 87% of birds have ingested plastics of some sort.
Crustaceans tested at the ocean’s deepest point, Mariana Trench, had ingested plastic.
People living along rivers and coastlines in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam are the most impacted by plastic pollution.
Henderson Island in the South Pacific is the most plastic polluted of any island recorded to date.
This is the source:
Thats it for now, we are thinking about posting every thursday new facts about plastic pollution.
Have a nice weekend, and we will try to write a new post next week on thursday
