![]() ![]() ⚛️ An adult human would ingest and inhale up to 121,000 microparticles of plastic per year. Plastics and human health: what do we know? □ Mortality rates caused by plastic debris can be as high as 22% for cetaceans and almost 50% for sea turtles. □ 90% of marine species are impacted by plastic pollution: from plankton to large predators (3800 species in total) □ More than 1.5 million marine animals die every year: strangled, suffocated, starved, fatally injured. □ Marine animals, marine biodiversity are the most immediate and visible victims of plastic pollution. What is the impact of plastic pollution on marine animals and marine biodiversity? □️ The ocean is the planet’s thermostat: its currents redistribute excess heat across the globe, reducing temperature differences between the poles and the equator, and its exchanges make the Ocean a carbon sink. □ Ocean plankton absorb 30% of the planet’s CO2 and produce over 50% of the oxygen we breathe. □ Covering 70% of our blue planet, the Ocean is essential to our survival □ This is equivalent to 50 kilograms of plastic per metre of coastline worldwide. □ This means that between 23 and 37 million tonnes of plastic will enter the ocean each year by 2040. □ If no urgent action is taken, the approximately 9-14 million tonnes of plastic that currently enter the ocean each year will triple over the next 20 years. ☣️ Plastics are the largest, most harmful and most persistent fraction of marine litter, accounting for at least 85% of total marine litter. □ It is estimated that between 9 and 14 million tonnes of plastic waste are dumped into the Ocean every year, that’s 17 tonnes or the equivalent of a bin lorry, every minute. ![]() □️ Once plastics become waste, only 10% are actually recycled globally, and 32% end up in nature and especially in the Ocean. □ This is the age of the throw-away: 40% of all plastics produced are thrown away within a month. ▶️ Today, of the more than 400 million tonnes of plastic produced per year worldwide : According to UN estimates, this global production could more than double by 2050. □ More than half of all plastics have been manufactured since 2000. From 1950 to 2017, an estimated 9.2 billion tonnes of plastic were produced worldwide. □ From then on, plastic invaded our daily lives at an impressive rate. The development of PET accelerated in 1978 when Coca-Cola replaced its iconic glass bottle with a single-use plastic bottle. □ New plastics appear during the war: PVC brings comfort to the home. Alexander Parkes invented Parkesin, the first known plastic: a material sharing the properties of elephant ivory (strength) and tortoise shell (malleability). □ The first real plastics appeared in the 1860s. How does plastic pollution compromise the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? In less than 10 minutes, the keys to understanding plastic pollution and taking action. Which animals are most exposed to plastic pollution? Why are the figures for plastic pollution so alarming? Home Plastic pollution Plastic pollution What causes plastic pollution? ![]()
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