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20 facts about plastic pollution

20 facts about plastic pollution
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Do not say or exceed plastic. We all know the negative effects of plastic on the planet and people. But figures show us that these effects are much more scary than we think. We’ve compiled 20 options for you.

1. The world produces 381 million tons of plastic waste annually and this figure will be doubled by 2034.
2. Over 1 million sea birds and 100 thousand sea animals die from plastic pollution each year. 100 percent of the sea turtles are plastic in the stomach. [[T]]] 3. 88 percent of the sea surface is contaminated with plastic waste. [
4. The largest criminal plastic packaging. Only 80 million tons of packages per year from the US appear. [
5. More than 1 million plastic bags are thrown into garbage every minute.
] 6. We can attach plastic bags to end end-to-end circles into 4200 times circle.
] 7 days. 7 bags used can be recycled less than 1.
8. It contains 1 plastic from every 3 fish captured to consume human.
9. Due to plastic, 700 species of sea animals face the danger of being destroyed.
10. The possibilities of being diseased when corals encounter plastic load from 4 percent to 89 percent. The meaning of this effect is clear if the corals are considered to host more than 25 percent of marine life.
11. 11. Plastic micro beads are estimated to be a million times more toxic than seawater around. [
12. 59 percent of plastic waste are sent to garbage fields or ocean, only 9 percent of them are recycled and 12 percent burned.
12. August A truck plastic is thrown into the oceans every minute.
14. 165 million ton plastic is currently circulating in sea environments in the world.
15. Only 1 percent of the sea garbage faces, everything else sinks into the sea base.
16. 20 percent of all plastic wastes in the sea are welded from fishing materials such as networks and ropes.
17. September 60 percent of materials forming clothes plastic forms (Nylon, acrylic, polyester etc. ).
18. A standard washing process produces about 700 thousand microplastic fiber.
] 19. September It is known that a large number of chemicals used to produce plastic are carcinogenic and interfering to the hormone system of the body, causing reproductive, neurological and immune disorders in both humans and wildlife.
20. The country that forms the most plastic pollution in the world is China.

Source: Condor Ferries

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Source: Environmental Protection