Did you know we use between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic bags every single year, and yet only 1 - 3% of these are currently being recycled… In total, we consume over 220 million tons of plastic annually and the effect of this is slowly but surely choking and suffocating our precious planet.
Our once crystal clear oceans have become toxic garbage dumps, swirling with deadly plastic that does not bio degrade and kills over a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals every year. Scientists have now found microscopic particles of plastic inside plankton, the keystone of the marine food chain. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area in the North Pacific Ocean covering an area twice the size of Texas is filled with 3.5 million tons of floating plastic. It is our collective shame as human beings that we have allowed our oceans to become a global garbage dump.