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The Science

There is a lot of science showing how HUGE this problem is, unfortunately this is often hard to access. So here's a few facts for you to learn & share.

Plastic debris outweights plankton 36:1 in the North Pacific gyre.

CAPTAIN CHARLES MOORE

Over 700 species are being impacted by plastic.

GALL & THOMPSON (2015)

There is a minimum of 5.25 trillion plastic particles (weighing 268, 940 tonnes) in our oceans.

ERIKSEN ET AL (2014)

Chemical pollutants move from microplastics into fish tissue (and into our food chain).

WARDROP ET AL. (2016)

25% of fish from fish markets in the USA contained plastic.

Rochman et al. (2015)

Microplastic has been found inside by animals at the bottom of the deep sea.

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