My name is Ravi Koranga and I’m a 24-year-old artist from India. I decided to create a theme I felt is so important to understand, posting what’s happening in ocean depictions every day of Inktober.
My conceptual art series shows a tiny scuba diver wandering through different ocean-facing scenarios which depict how much destruction is caused by plastic. And my illustrations don’t end with Inktober. Big Companies like Coca-Cola, Pepsi co, Nestle are targeted through my art, which raises the question – Why does Marine Life and the Ocean have to suffer due to the Consequences of their Endless Plastic Production and why we must stop consuming these products. Each piece of artwork has informative knowledge. Make sure to check them out.
So if you’re looking to support cleaner oceans or are in favor of the plastic ban, check out my art below. It will surely show you the importance!
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#1 Husky
73% of all beach litter is plastic.
19points
#2 Legend
Plastic is found in pretty much every layer of the ocean column and approximately 95% is actually found on the ocean bed. In some places, the ocean bed is over 10 kilometers deep, and it is very difficult to reach those depths.
19points
#3 Build
More than 90% of sea turtles have consumed plastic.
18points
#4 Snow
Even glaciers are now contaminated with microplastic. Truly, no place on Earth has escaped pollution.
18points
#5 Brainless
Every minute one garbage truck of plastic is dumped into our ocean.
17points
#6 Frail
More than 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into our oceans every year.
16points
#7 Enchanted
We are producing over 300 million tons of plastic every 50% of which is for single-use purposes.
15points
#8 Wild
Plastic is discharged from several different sources. 80% of the waste that ends in the ocean comes from land-based activities.
15points
#9 Ancient
Every year we use approximately 1.6 million barrels of oil just for producing plastic water bottles. Plastic bottles can take up to 450 years or more to decompose in landfills.
15points
#10 Bait
We’re using more plastic than ever. It’s durable, cheap to produce and we’re consuming it at staggering rates.
12points
#11 Freeze
100,000 marine mammals, turtles, and 1 million sea birds are killed by marine plastic pollution annually.
11points
#12 Swing
The planet is getting buried under plastic. Companies must put the brakes on the production of more plastic just because hardly 7% of cold drink bottles get recycled.
11points
#13 Ring
Plastic is where it shouldn’t be. It’s in the sea and on the beach, and it’s causing harm.
9points
#14 Pattern
We use more than 500 million plastic straws each day. Straws are too small to be easily recycled.
9points
#15 Ash
4.5 trillion filters are littered each year, and just a single one is enough to kill fish in a stream.
9points
#16 Overgrown
There are believed to be 46,000 pieces of plastic in every square mile of the ocean.
8points
#17 Dark
All that soda you're drinking is polluting the planet.
8points
#18 Ride
According to the survey, by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
8points
#19 Dragon
China produces about a third of plastic waste polluting the world’s oceans.
7points
#20 Ornament
Many marine organisms can’t distinguish common plastic items from food.
7points