The amount of plastics produced and flowing into the environment has reached crisis point, with approximately 400 million tonnes of plastics produced every year and set to triple by 2060.
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As you read this, a sea turtle is likely choking on what it thought was a jellyfish. The sea turtle is just one of approximately 100,000 marine mammals that will die this year from mistaking our plastic waste for food. Plastic is now so pervasive that recent research has found it in our brains, placentas, lungs, and vital organs—there’s nowhere it hasn’t reached, including inside us.
The amount of plastics produced and flowing into the environment has reached crisis point, with approximately 400 million tonnes of plastics produced every year and this number is set to triple by 2060.
