Plastic will clog up the world's oceans by 2050

There is a lot of plastic in the world’s oceans.

Plastic will be more plentiful in our
oceans than fish by 2050.

It coagulates into great floating “garbage patches” that cover large swaths of the Pacific. It washes up on urban beaches and remote islands, tossed about in the waves and transported across incredible distances before arriving, unwanted, back on land. It has wound up in the stomachs of more than half the world’s sea turtles and nearly all of its marine birds, studies say. And if it was bagged up and arranged across all of the world’s shorelines, we could build a veritable plastic barricade between ourselves and the sea.

But that quantity pales in comparison with the amount that the World Economic Forum expects will be floating into the oceans by the middle of the century.

Read The Washington Post story - “By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans, study says.”