Will 154,000,000 Pieces of Plastic from Christmas Crackers in the UK Wind Up in the Ocean in a Single Year?
Here’s how the rumor about hundreds of millions of pieces of “crackers” becoming ocean plastic got started.
Here’s how the rumor about hundreds of millions of pieces of “crackers” becoming ocean plastic got started.
In July 2019 a Facebook user shared the following comic about plastic nets and ocean pollution: In four panels depicting a person with a plastic straw and a seal trapped in a plastic net, it read: Person: I NEED TO SAVE THE OCEAN FROM ALL THE PLASTIC! Seal: YES, THE NETS! Person: THIS STRAW IS …
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On March 18 2019 the Facebook page “Ascend (Podcast)” shared the following video (archived here), purportedly showing the shores of the Dominican Republic two days earlier: The status update read: ‘DEAD” Sea…………..no more plastic This was filmed two days ago off the Dominican Republic Coast. Our Oceans are dying. The clip was immensely popular in the …
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