Last year, more than 110 billion disposable plastic bottles were set adrift on the economic waters of the world by CocaCola and its affiliates, according to an analysis by Greenpeace.
Plastic waste is an international scourge that threatens the environment and kills millions of sea creatures every year. It’s time to rein in the profligate waste of plastic that overflows landfills and fills the oceans.
Ocean plastic is one of the most challenging of environmental problems because it happens far out to sea, out of sight of human beings. But it threatens every creature living in the ocean and by extension any human who depends on the ocean for food.
One of the most remote islands in the world, Henderson Island in the South Pacific, is now littered with an estimated 37.7 million pieces of plastic debris, according to a new study from British researchers.
