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Friday, 10/27/2017 11:54:07 AM

Friday, October 27, 2017 11:54:07 AM

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No longer a share holder but I'm hearing rumblings concerning this problem....I'm watching closely

Picture from the Caribbean Sea off Honduras

By numbers | Plastic in the sea

300 million - tons of plastic produced globally each year

12 per cent - amount of plastic which is recycled

Five trillion - number of pieces of microplastic in ocean, with one rubbish truck load added each minute

11,000 - number of pieces of microplastic ingested by humans each year from seafood

780,000 - number of microplastics humans will ingest by the end of the century if trends continue

8.5 billion - number of plastic bags used in English supermarkets annually before 5p charge

6 billion - estimated number of bags removed from circulation annually at last count, an 80 per cent reduction.

12 minutes - useful lifespan of average plastic bag