Environmental Effects Of Plasic

This sea of plastic imposes many detrimental effects on sea life each year:

• Plastic debris causes deaths to more than one million seabirds each year
• Plastic debris also causes the death of 100,00 marine mammals yearly
• Plastic contributes to 60-80% of all garbage in the ocean
• Each square kilometre of ocean contains 13,00-18,000 pieces of plastic

Percentage of marine species worldwide ingesting or entangled with plastic:

• 86% of turtle species with ingestion or entanglement
• 23% of marine mammals with ingestion
• 28% of marine species with entanglement
• 36% of seabird species with ingestion
• 16% of seabird species with entanglement