10 sentences about plastic pollution
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There are things we can do in our own lives to reduce how much plastic pollution is created. But first, let's talk about the pollution itself. Here's 10 facts about plastic pollution you should know.
1. Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the Earth four times. That's a lot of plastic!
2. In Los Angeles alone, 10 metric tons of plastic fragments are carried into the Pacific Ocean every day. How is the ocean even surviving?
3. Americans throw away 35 billion plastic water bottles a year. That's way too many.
4. 93% of Americans six years or older test positive for BPA, a chemical found in some types of plastics. Fortunately, industries and governments have been moving away from BPA quickly, as the chemical mimics estrogen and can be a hormone disruptor.
5. 44% of seabirds and 22% of cetaceans have been documented to have plastic either in or on their bodies.
6. A million seabirds die each year due to plastic in our oceans.
7. On top of that, 100,000 marine mammals die each year from ingesting or getting plastic stuck on them.
8. We've produced more plastic in the last decade than we did in the previous century.
9. The average American throws out 185 pounds of plastic each year.
10. Worldwide, we use and discard half a trillion plastic bags each year. That's 500,000,000,000. Way too many, right?
There are things we can do in our own lives to reduce how much plastic pollution is created. But first, let's talk about the pollution itself. Here's 10 facts about plastic pollution you should know.
1. Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the Earth four times. That's a lot of plastic!
2. In Los Angeles alone, 10 metric tons of plastic fragments are carried into the Pacific Ocean every day. How is the ocean even surviving?
3. Americans throw away 35 billion plastic water bottles a year. That's way too many.
4. 93% of Americans six years or older test positive for BPA, a chemical found in some types of plastics. Fortunately, industries and governments have been moving away from BPA quickly, as the chemical mimics estrogen and can be a hormone disruptor.
5. 44% of seabirds and 22% of cetaceans have been documented to have plastic either in or on their bodies.
6. A million seabirds die each year due to plastic in our oceans.
7. On top of that, 100,000 marine mammals die each year from ingesting or getting plastic stuck on them.
8. We've produced more plastic in the last decade than we did in the previous century.
9. The average American throws out 185 pounds of plastic each year.
10. Worldwide, we use and discard half a trillion plastic bags each year. That's 500,000,000,000. Way too many, right?
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Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic products in the environment that adversely affects wildlife, wildlife habitat and humans.Plastics that act as pollutants are categorized into micro-, meso-, or macro debris, based on size. Plastics are inexpensive and durable, and as a result levels of plastic production by humans are high. Moreover, the chemical structure of most plastics renders them resistant to many natural processes of degradation and as a result they are slow to degrade.Together, these two factors have led to a high prominence of plastic pollution in the environment.
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