By Dr. Mercola
By Dr. Mercola
It’s estimated that close to 300 million tons of plastic are produced every year, more than half of which is for single-use products. Those discarded plastic bottles, bags, straws and other plastic waste end up largely in our oceans, to the tune of more than 8 million tons a year.1 Carried along with the ocean’s currents, swirling gyres of “plastic smog”2 now cover about 40 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces.3
While these heavily plastic polluted areas are often referred to as garbage patches in the sea, the problem is …read more
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