Plastic pollution facts

Say hello to summer and adios to plastic waste! Memorial Day Weekend marks the beginning of summertime plans and parties. If you’ve ever planned a backyard BBQ in the summertime, you’re probably familiar with how quickly trash can pile up making your social fun-time a sad moment for our planet. By now you might have heard: we are in the midst of a plastics crisis. We are drowning in single-use plastic trash, and it’s harming our health and killing animals at alarming rates. Since parties are…

Here is a simple infographic created by SimplyPlastics.com that provides some little known facts about plastic usage and manufacturing as well as recycling of plastic.

Find out key facts about plastic in the ocean with our infographics, as well discover their impact and how the EU is acting to reduce plastic litter in the seas.

Learn some interesting facts about plastic pollution and how you and your business can be a part of the fight against it for World Environment Day on June 5th.

Plastic recycling facts Infographic detailing interesting statistics of the recycling of plastics in the UK.

Editor's note: this post was updated June 6, 2019. A recent study found that people may be consuming anywhere from 39,000 to 52,000 microplastic particles a year. This startling finding is just the…

Updates from the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment

How does plastic end up in the ocean? Who is putting it there, and what can be done about it? Read this overview of facts about how and why the seas are filling up with plastic waste.

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