3 facts about trash being thrown into the ocean

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In 1975, the National Academy of Sciences estimated that 14 billion pounds of garbage was being dumped into the ocean every year. That's more than 1.5 million pounds per hour.

More than 85% of this trash was estimated to come from the world's merchant shipping fleet in the form of cargo-associated wastes.

Eight million metric tons: That’s how much plastic we dump into the oceans each year. That’s about 17.6 billion pounds — or the equivalent of nearly 57,000 blue whales — every single year. By 2050, ocean plastic will outweigh all of the ocean’s fish.

It's polluting the waters and poisoning it, it harms and can kill wildlife such as fish, and whales, and it can also ruin the underwater coral reefs and other structures that are important to our research and to the lives of ocean wildlife.

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