One of the most talked about categories of marine debris is ocean plastic. Plastic marine debris is any plastic material that inadvertently makes its way out to sea—none of it belongs there. In general, marine litter is any human-created waste that has been discharged into the coastal or marine environment. Read more

We are turning our beautiful Ocean into a plastic soup. About 8 million tonnes of plastic enters the sea every year, and at this rate we face a future with more plastic in the Ocean than fish by 2050. Read full article here.