European Parliament, ASEAN : Stop the plastic Pollution
(WorldNews Environment)

There are trillion pieces of plastic debris in the ocean. Since the 1950s, around 8.3 billion tons of plastic have been produced worldwide. A million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute. Worldwide, about 2 million plastic bags are used every minute. 90% of plastic polluting our oceans is carried by just 10 rivers. The average person eats 70,000 microplastics each year. Plastic is dangerous: Whales that starve with a full stomach, because they have eaten indigestible plastic . Seals with centimeter deep wounds by plastic waste, which cut them deeper and deeper into the flesh. `Ghost gear,` the result of fishing vessels abandoning or losing their fishing nets, lines, and...