- Only 9% of all plastic produced is recycled
- A whopping 2 million plastic bags are used every minute worldwide
- Single-use plastics are illegal in some parts of the world
- Every minute of every day a truckload of plastic is dumped into the ocean
- 73% of beach litter worldwide is plastic
- One million plastic bottles are bought every minute
- There could be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050
- Up to 95% of plastic polluting oceans is carried by 10 rivers
- 99% of seabirds will be eating plastic by 2050
- The average person eats 70,000 microplastics each year
- The average time that a plastic bag is used is just 12 minutes
- Over the past 50 years, world plastic production has doubled