Shocking Plastic Statistics
Shocking Plastic Statistics
PLASTIC FACTS
More than 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine animals die from plastic pollution every year.
PLASTIC FACTS
100% of baby sea turtles have plastic in their stomachs.
PLASTIC FACTS
There is now 5.25 trillion macro and micro pieces of plastic in our ocean & 46,000 pieces in every square mile of ocean, weighing up to 269,000 tonnes.
PLASTIC FACTS
Every day around 8 million pieces of plastic makes their way into our oceans.
PLASTIC FACTS
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is around 1.6 million square kilometers – bigger than Texas.
PLASTIC FACTS
The world produces 381 million tonnes in plastic waste yearly – this is set to double by 2034.
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50% of this is single-use plastic & only 9% has ever been recycled.
PLASTIC FACTS
79% of plastic waste is sent to landfills or the ocean, while only 9% is recycled, and 12% gets incinerated.
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88% of the sea's surface is polluted by plastic waste.
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Between 8 to 14 million tonnes enters our ocean every year.
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The world uses over 500 billion plastic bags a year – that’s 150 for each person on Earth.
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8.3 billion plastic straws pollute the world’s beaches, but only 1% of straws end up as waste in the ocean.
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4 billion plastic microfibers per square kilometer clutter the sea.
PLASTIC FACTS
25 trillion macro and 51 trillion microplastics litter our oceans.
Of that, 269,000 tonnes float on the surface. This is the equivalent of 1345 blue whales & 500 times the number of stars in our galaxy.
PLASTIC FACTS
One garbage truck of plastic is discarded into our oceans every minute.
PLASTIC FACTS
165 million tonnes of plastic currently circulates in Earth's marine environments.
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Marine plastic pollution has affected 100% of marine turtles, 59% of whales, 36% of seals and 40% of seabirds of those examined.
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Over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed by ocean plastic every year.
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705,000 tonnes of discarded fishing nets drown mammals including seals – this is known as ‘ghost fishing’
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Plastic has been found as far as 11km deep, contaminating the most remote places on Earth.
SOURCE: CONDOR