Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Aga

Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times\nMore than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year\n300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every year\nAn estimated 15-51 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans\n38.5 million plastic bottles are used every day in the UK\nA million plastic bottles are used per minute around the world\n500 million plastic straws are used per year\n\nWithout big action, at the current rate, pieces of plastic will outnumber fish in the ocean by 2050. That is the legacy we are leaving our children and grandchildren.\n\nPlastic flows into our lives from every direction and most of it is not recycled. Instead it is incinerated or ends up in landfill, where it will sit for hundreds of years, or enters the world's seas where it fragments into tiny pieces to become microplastics - the environmental scourge of our times.\n\nMany of us had assumed that governments, brands and waste authorities were dealin.