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Life Below Water
Why is it important
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More than 100,00 marine animals die a year from plastic entanglement or ingestion
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Pollution
More plastic than fish
Eight million metric tons: That’s how much plastic we dump into the oceans each year. That’s about 17.6 billion pounds — or the equivalent of nearly 57,000 blue whales — every single year. By 2050, ocean plastic will outweigh all of the ocean’s fish.
Ocean trash can be broken into smaller pieces — known as microplastic — by sun exposure and wave action, after which it can find its way into the food chain. When it eventually degrades (which takes 400 years for most plastic), the process releases chemicals that further contaminate the sea.
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Cost of clean up
Every year, an estimated 5 to 12 million metric tons of plastic enters the ocean, costing roughly $13 billion per year
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