We're surrounded by plastic.
It’s in the single-use packaging we discard, the consumer goods that fill our stores, and in our clothing, which sheds microplastic fibers in the wash.
All this plastic is accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches and has become a global crisis.
Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces.
At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. 🐟
June is National Ocean Month, so let's test your knowledge to see how much you know about the impacts of plastic pollution on the world's oceans.
Answers are on the second to last slide!
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