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article on end plastic polution

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Ending plastic pollution is about avoiding plastic in the first place and if unable to, reusing or recycling the material as opposed to tossing it into the garbage towards the landfill or onto the ground embarking it upon a journey to the sea. Plastics do not biodegrade. They actually resist biodegradation, but will eventually break down into small particles from exposure to the elements, sunlight and especially seawater. These small particles resemble food to marine life and the results are tragic and come back to us in the form of toxic food, the environment in the form of toxic degradation and to wildlife in the form of toxic death. Plastic constitutes 90% of all trash floating in the world's oceans with some areas having a ratio of 6-to-1 plastic to plankton by weight in 1999 and 46-to-1 plastic to plankton ratio in 2008 . The world produces 300 billion pounds of plastic each year. 10% of this plastic ends up in the oceans where 70% eventually sinks damaging habitats on the ocean floor. The rest floats or remains suspended just below the ocean surface forming these massive garbage patches, or washing up on a distant shore. There is little we can do to clean our oceans, for a cleanup effort would bankrupt any country, but there is much we can do to change our ways to prevent further destruction both in the ocean and on land. The best solution is prevention.

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