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A 2-minute video on “How plastic pollution got so bad?”

It is estimated that there would be about 937 million tons of plastic in the oceans by 2050. In this same year, there would be more plastic than fish in the oceans.

Humans rely on plastic to a very high level as it has changed our lives, but where did it all go wrong?
Simple answer: Single-use Plastics.

People buy millions of plastic bottles every minute worldwide and just throw them away. Waste management system can’t keep up and 91% of plastic isn’t even recycled and instead of that it is been overflowed in rivers and coastlines and ending up in our oceans. Our throwaway items take 100s of years to biodegrade.

Where do all these plastics go? Answer to this is into giant garbage patches in the ocean known as the five Gyres. These ocean currents churn plastic waste into massive whirlpools. One is very big and contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic.

What are people doing about this? Scientists are deploying wax worms to eat plastic bags. And the Trashpresso machine transforms plastics into building tiles, even Adidas is now turning plastic to shoes.

Over 60 countries have passed laws to reduce single-use plastics. Yet despite all these innovations and progress we are still using and making plastics more than ever.