Alarming new evidence shows how plastic containers pollute our world. They pose grave dangers to the environment. Everything we buy is pretty much packaged in plastic, is it any wonder that we are now paying the price.
We Need To Change Way We Shop To Save Our Planet
- Inside the Garbage of the World explores how plastic trash has altered the composition of our oceans, and the impact this may eventually have on life
- 4.7 million tons of plastic ends up in our oceans each year, where wave action turns them into a plastic soup that damages sea life and marine ecosystems
- The plastic to plankton ratio in the North Pacific is increasing rapidly and exponentially. Tests in 1999 found a plastic to plankton ratio of six to one. By 2007, that ratio had jumped to 36 to one
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