Sign if you want people to stop littering the ocean. Keep our beautiful ocean clean and help the ocean animals. More than 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine animals die from plastic pollution every year. 100% of baby sea turtles have plastic in their stomachs. There is now 5.25 trillion macro and micro pieces of plastic in our ocean & 46,000 pieces in every square mile of ocean, weighing up to 269,000 tonnes. There is an estimated 75 to 199 million tons of plastic waste currently in our oceans, with a further 33 billion pounds of plastic entering the marine environment every single year. Every day around 8 million pieces of plastic makes their way into our oceans. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is around 1.6 million square kilometers – bigger than Texas. 88% of the sea's surface is polluted by plastic waste. Between 8 to 14 million tonnes enters our ocean every year. On UK beaches there are 5000 pieces of plastic & 150 plastic bottles for each mile. 8.3 billion plastic straws pollute the world’s beaches, but only 1% of straws end up as waste in the ocean. 1 in 3 fish caught for human consumption contains plastic. Plastic microbeads are estimated to be one million times more toxic than the seawater around it.
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