Ditch single use plastics in drive to clean oceans

There will be more plastic than fish in our seas by 2050 if we don’t act now.

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This is one of those ‘stats’ that are so shocking it’s almost impossible to believe but due to the increasing amount of rubbish entering rivers and seas, plastic in the ocean is due to outweigh fish in the next twenty five years.

Plastic production has risen from two million tonnes in 1950 to about 475 million in 2022and it is expected to keep rising. Even worse, only about ten per cent of plastic is recycled worldwide as the trend to dump waste in poor countries continues unchallenged.

The negative impact of plastic on human health are being widely reported as micro plastics are turning up in internal organs and newborn babies, where they leach out toxic chemicals.