The problem is people eat the food in the vending machines somewhere, then they throw the plastic in the the trash and the plastic goes in the landfill and when a storm comes it picks it up and goes in the ocean and kills the fish.
A way to stop that from happening is by bring food from home and don't eat vending machine food. So you don’t kill the fish or waste your money on the vending machines. Look how much of this is plastic:
Did you see that 23% is plastic bags with chips! That is a lot and they made $9.7 billion. Now that is a lot of money and they will keep making more and more if we don’t stop buying because they get so much money.