Will McCallum, who devoted his last three years to an anti-plastic movement and to work on it, collected what he had learned as a result of his observations and clues to reducing the use of plastic in his book How to Give Up Plastic.
It is difficult to understand exactly how much plastic waste is in the ocean. Different factors make such predictions difficult. For example, plastics floating on water and submerged in the seabed make it difficult to predict the microfibre and microplastic plastics where it is impossible to see with the naked eye.
More than two-thirds of the planet is covered with ocean. Will and his team have made observations for only part of the ocean floor in his study. Despite all the difficulties, 150 million tons of plastic in the ocean was already foreseen. It is estimated that this figure will be more worrisome and that the production will increase even more than the fish in the ocean by 2050.
Approximately 4.8 million to 12.7 million tons of plastic waste is coming to the ocean every year. This means that 1 waste truck is dumped into the ocean at almost every minute. According to the latest report published by the British government, this plastic waste to the ocean can triple in the next 10 years.
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