2. Plastic costs billions to abate. Everything
suffers: tourism, recreation, business, the
health of humans, animals, fish and birds—
because of plastic pollution.
Plastic never goes away. Plastic is a
durable material made to last forever,
yet 33 percent of it is used once and
then discarded. Plastic does not
biodegrade; it breaks down into
smaller and smaller pieces.
3. Plastic is a substance the
earth cannot digest. When
plastic enters the ocean it
slowly breaks down to smaller
and smaller pieces. These
pieces absorb like sponges
any toxins that are found in the
water, added to the chemicals
that the plastic already
carries. Wildlife such as fish
eat these small plastic
particles.
4. AD CAMPAIGNS
Entanglement, ingestion
and habitat disruption
all result from plastic
ending up in the spaces
where animals live. In
our oceans alone,
plastic debris
outweighs zooplankton
by a ratio of 36-to-1.
8. “How is the ocean not enraged,
swelling—
how is it not furious with grief:
we have drowned it in plastic,
its waves are no longer its own.
How does it survive this,
blistered by our carelessness?
We are drops of the ocean:
why can’t we see this?
T H A N K Y O U
