POWERFUL VIDEO: Why we need to stop plastic pollution in our oceans for good | Oceana

Our oceans sustain life.

An abundant ocean
can feed a billion people

a healthy meal every day forever.

But now they are being filled, killed

by throwaway plastics.

The equivalent of one
garbage truck of plastic

is dumped in the sea every minute -

17.6 billion pounds every year.

Plastic is everywhere in our ocean -

floating on the surface,

mixing in the saltwater,

and sitting on the ocean bottom
miles and miles deep.

And once in the ocean,

it never goes away.

Over hundreds of years,

it breaks down into small pieces,

but those pieces,

even the tiny ones called micro plastics,

are still plastic.

Sea turtles are choking on them.

Scientists say that over 60% of whale
and dolphin species are affected by it.

it's all plankton, the base
of the ocean food chain eat it

and so, do we?

It's in the water we drink.

It's in our food -

micro plastics have been found
in our salt, our honey, and our beer -

and sometimes even in the air we breathe.

Companies are choosing to make something

that will be used just once,

from a material that lasts forever if you don't

like what throwaway plastics are already

doing to our world brace yourself

we face a tsunami of throw away plastic

in our and the oceans future four times

more plastic will be produced between

now and the middle of the century than

has been produced in all of history four

times more what can we do

recycling of all the plastic ever

generated as of 2015 only 9% was

recycled even when it is recycled

plastic degrades your plastic soda

bottle maybe becomes a shampoo bottle

then a floor mat even in the best case

it doesn't recycle it down cyclists and

then it becomes pollution that ruins our

beaches and chokes sea animals forever

we should not be forced to pollute the

ocean every time we eat drink or go

shopping we need to be given a choice a

plastic free choice this is not hard to

imagine indeed some responsible

companies are already leading the way

there are throw away plastic free aisles

in supermarkets beverage companies

already offer plastic free soda and

salsa water restaurants offer plastic

free service there are plastic free

rooms and hotels an airline is now

offering a plastic free flight

and oceania and our allies are winning

plastic free victories following

campaigning by Oceania Peru passed the

law that keeps plastic out of national

parks and beaches

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Belize is getting rid of styrofoam

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and the European Union has mandated

reductions for throw away plastic

throughout its 28 member countries but

with your help

we can do the work together we can

create a movement to reduce throw away

plastic we can make sure we're all given

real plastic free choices we can help

our cities towns schools and workplaces

establish zones that are free of throw

away plastic

let's stop plastic pollution from

wrecking our beaches and our oceans and

to have healthy oceans that delight the

sustained ease for generations to come

please join our campaign go to Oceana

org slash plastics today