The Ocean Conservancy published in a recent report that China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam spew as much as 60 percent of the plastic waste that enters the world's seas. These countries have adopted the western consumer culture, where people buy more and more prepackaged goods and disposable items. Despite this, in these countries only 40 percent of garbage is collected properly.
At the rate that plastic is entering the ocean currently, we will have one ton of plastic for every three tons of fish in the world's oceans and 95 percent of the plastic is underwater where it harms many forms of wildlife. At this point, there must be an organized effort to better manage garbage, especially in developing countries. There must also be an organized effort to clean the oceans of the trash that is already in them.
At the rate that plastic is entering the ocean currently, we will have one ton of plastic for every three tons of fish in the world's oceans and 95 percent of the plastic is underwater where it harms many forms of wildlife. At this point, there must be an organized effort to better manage garbage, especially in developing countries. There must also be an organized effort to clean the oceans of the trash that is already in them.