In a new report titled Foresight Future of the Sea by the UK Government Office for Science, discovered that the amount of plastic in the ocean could triple by the year 2025.
Currently, there is already over 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic trash in the world’s ocean and with the current amount expected to triple in such a short time, we need to address the reality of what we have created.
The report warns that the current health of the oceans could have some cruel implications for biodiversity, noting that there is already a 49% decline in marine vertebrate populations between 1970 and 2012.
The world is slowly starting to wake up to our plastic problem but we still use way too much on a global scale. Walk into any super market or restaurant and pay attention to the amount of single-use plastic being used and quickly, it becomes evident how vast our addiction has become.
https://nackpets.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/ocean-plastic-is-expected-to-triple-by-2025-sea-voice-news (original source)
This website discusses the increase of plastic in the following years to come. The site also talks about how there is already 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in the ocean. It highlights how much of a serious problem we have created just by being careless with our trash. It gives a large scale to the extent of how big this problem is.
Plastic Hurts The Ocean 