Alan Lowenthal actually said...

Plastics are also making climate change worse.

An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the oceans each year at a rate of about one garbage truck per minute.

Last year I witnessed the impacts of plastic pollution on wildlife in Antarctica, one of the few places on earth that has been relatively un...

So, in terms of a contribution to the global plastic quantity of waste, the 6.4 million that I mentioned--or billion, excuse me--we are a ma...