Plastic kills millions of animals
Plastic pollution kills animals, may be harmful to humans, and turns untouched stretches of ocean into trash islands like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which covers 1.6 million km², according to a Nature study.
That's six and a half times the size of the UK. If it were a country, it would be the 18th biggest in the world.
Millions of birds, fish, and other marine animals die every year from plastic consumption, according to National Geographic .
That includes around 100,000 annual deaths of marine mammals like dolphins, whales, and sea lions, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) .
