Stunning reality - plastic

In just a little over 34 years, our majestic seas will contain more human-generated waste, plastic, than there are living, breathing, beautiful marine animals. Sure, it’s easy to talk about these numbers and let it slip to the back of our minds. But can you imagine living in that ocean? Sadly, marine animals don’t have the luxury of forgetting that plastic may take over their entire ecosystem.
When you’re out-numbered by plastic, there’s no escape from the threat of entanglement that is currently driving over 700 marine species to the point of extinction. And beyond entanglement, ingestion and pollution put these animals in extreme danger. A hungry fish may innocently mistake a piece of plastic trash as food, proceed to eat it, and ingest all the toxic chemicals that certainly should not fill one’s body. You wouldn’t want to eat plastic, would you? (This may seem hypothetical, but in fact, you may very well be ingesting plastic if you’re eating seafood.)
The sad reality is that all most of us have no idea that the disposable plastic items we use every day have this impact on marine life. In fact, when most people grab a plastic water bottle or take a plastic straw in a restaurant, the last thing that comes to mind is the animal who might one day fall prey to that plastic item.