Did you know that 1 million plastic bottles are bought each minute in America and only 23% of that is recycled?

Plastic waste has become a massive issue worldwide. Our oceans, rivers and lakes are all being trashed with plastics which has major effects on animals and the environment. Sea animals all across the world are slowly becoming more and more endangered. One species becoming endangered can affect the lives of other species greatly. Plastic pollution does not just affect the lives of animals, it is also very dangerous if we consume it. If you buy fish from the ocean, they can contain micro-plastics in its body which you will eventually be digesting. The micro-plastic ends up in the fish because they mistake it for food. The plastic can be digested all the way up the food chain from microscopic plankton all the way up to sharks and even whales.

335 million metric tons of plastic was produced in 2016 alone and about half of that plastic was was single-use plastic