Plastic waste can kill up to 1 MILLION sea birds, 100,000 sea mammals, turtles, and countless fish each year. Researchers have now collected more than 3 MILLION fragments of micro-plastics across 300 beaches in Australia. Plastic waste is leaving beaches looking horrible, in terrible condition. And In the world, there are more than 5 trillion pieces of plastic floating in our oceans. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a huge global problem. Annually, 19-23 million tonnes of plastic waste leaks into aquatic ecosystems, polluting lakes, rivers and seas. Plastic pollution can change habitats and natural processes, reducing ecosystems’ ability to adapt to climate change, affecting millions of people’s livelihoods, food production capabilities and social well-being. Share this with friends and family to help raise awareness and also help End plastic pollution.

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