You may have heard that the oceans are filling up with plastic, but how full exactly? A study from 2010 estimated that around 8 million tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean every year¹. With plastic production worldwide skyrocketing every year, this figure has only gone upwards; and given how light plastic is, this translates to an unimaginably large amount of waste floating in our oceans.
We are campaigning the following three principles in an attempt to bring about lasting change.