01/28/2025
https://www.alternet.org...
"Plastic takes at least 450 years to degrade completely; sometimes much longer than that."
"Experts believe that about 90 percent of all plastic pollution flows into the oceans from just ten rivers."
"By now, many Americans have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch."
"It is estimated that around 8 million metric tons of plastic waste ends up in the world's oceans each year."