In life, we can't live without plastic everywhere: bottles, bags, cups, buckets, straws ...... But have you ever thought about how much harm a small plastic product can bring?
According to the latest news from the United Nations Environment Programme: the world produces more than 400 million tons of plastic every year, one-third of which is used only once; every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastics dumping plastics into rivers, lakes and oceans; microplastics are all-pervasive in the food we ingest, the water we drink and the air we breathe. These images may make you uncomfortable, but they are the harsh reality.
In Wakatobi, Indonesia, a stranded whale was found locally with a belly full of plastic trash; it had 12 pounds of plastic trash in its belly, including 115 cups.
Plastic garbage floats near a dam in Serbia.
Plastic trash and debris from a storm at sea in the Bay of Naples, Italy.
A British man photographed a scene while scuba diving in the waters of Bali, where large amounts of plastic garbage are floating in the ocean and are shunned by fish and other marine life.
Floating plastic trash is a serious threat to marine wildlife in the waters of Turkey's Hatay province.
On the island of Trindade, which is three to four days' sail from the Brazilian coast, a geologist has discovered a large number of rocks formed from plastic.
As many as 1 million species have been endangered in the past 30 years; temperatures have risen at the highest rate in 2000 over the past half-century ...... By 2050, there may be more plastic in the ocean than fish!
