Eight million tons of plastic reaches our oceans annually. The top plastic marine debris items are cigarette butts, food wrappers ... Just 1,000 rivers are responsible for 80% of all ocean plastic.

Every year, more than 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean - bags, cups, straws, and many other items from the daily ...

Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. Nothing is an emergency ...

Much of the plastic that does not end up in landfill or go through other waste management pathways (such as recycling or incineration) is thought to end up in the ocean. Between 4.8 and 12.7 million ...

Such an amount of plastic, 21 million tons, would be enough to fully load almost 1,000 container ships. Findings are published in the journal Nature Communications There are 12-21 million tons of ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic ... world—that would correspond to about 8.8 million tons, her middle-of-the-road estimate of what the ocean gets from us annually.

More than five trillion pieces of plastic already fill the seas, with some nine million tons added each year ... white—and their slow degradation by ocean waves, harsh sunlight, sand, and ...

Every year, around 8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the ocean, where it can prove fatal to marine life. These tiny, lentil sized plastic pieces are by-products of various ...

In 2019, Adidas expects to make 11 million pairs of shoes with recycled ocean plastic. That's more than double what it made in 2018. Adidas says the partnership has prevented 2,810 tons of plastic ...

Researchers have made micro plastic ... Atlantic Ocean for the first time. In the first 200 meters of the water layer, they estimate that there are approximately 12 to 21 million tons of waste.