every year eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean damaging and diseasing the marine environments a main source of this is single-use plastics which are used to package something just once before being discarded they fragment but they never really go away this leads to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of marine creatures and millions of birds each year through entanglement injury drowning and ingestion currently one-third of all fish we eat and 90 of all sea birds have ingested plastic and if we continue to pollute at the same rate there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050 at this point removing all the microplastics from the ocean is impossible but through companies banning single-use plastic packaging and by using plastic alternatives ourselves we can reduce how much plastic continues to go into the ocean before it's too late you
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