How Much Do You Know About Plastic And Its Effects On The Environment?

Animals consider the plastic for other edible animals; the eaten plastic can starve the animals because it gives them a full feeling but they can’t receive any energy out of it. Also, they can get caught up in big pieces of plastic which kills them.

Denmark transports its collected plastic from households to Germany ready for recycling. Due to the difficulty of recycling the plastic, some of the plastic that Germany receives from Denmark is exported to countries in Southeast Asia, including Malaysia. Here they burn it for fuel or throw it on open landfills

For example, a plastic bag in the ocean is being considered as jellyfish by turtles and wales. This eaten plastic blocks the whole digestive system of animal.

The plastic in the oceans is broken into micro-plastic. The animals eating the plastic are actually eating toxic substances, the so-called micro-plastic. Small organisms are at the start of the food chain, so in the end we get the chemical junk on our plates as we eat animals from the sea.

The packaging sector produces twice as much plastic than construction and 3 times more plastic waste

Floating plastic in the ocean does not fade away, but it breaks into smaller pieces because of the UV-radiation, sea salt and abrasion. Ultimately, so-called micro-plastics remain.

Nine billion tons of plastic was produced since its invention. Only around 6% of this plastic has been recycled. Even more than 250.000 tons is floating in the oceans.

500 billion per year is almost 200.000 bottles per second.

This is the weight of roughly a billion elephants or 47 million blue whales.

Countries as China, Indonesia, Vietnam and India are the biggest polluters. The plastic is thrown in rivers. China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam together provide more plastic in the ocean than all other countries combined.

According to the United Nations, ingestion of plastic kills an estimate of 1 million marine birds and 100,000 marine animals each year. Research from Plymouth University has found that close to 700 species of marine life are facing extinction due to the increase of plastic pollution.

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Worldwide 5 billion plastic bags are being produced annually, worldwide. An area twice as big as France!