Plastic Pollution
8 Million tonnes of plastic enters the sea every year.
Sounds like a lot, but it's just a really big number. Let us help you put it into perspective.
Since you started reading this page,
the equivalent of 0
plastic 500ml drinks bottles
have been dumped in the sea ![]() |
Placed end-to-end,
they would stretch for over
0 miles
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It would take that tower 35 minutes to stretch from London to New York |
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and only 4 hrs 5 mins to stretch around the world |
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In just 1 day 15 hrs it would reach the moon |
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Enough plastic bottles that in 1 week every inch of coastline in the world would be lined with a plastic bottle |
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4Ocean are working hard to reduce |