plastic waste in the ocean

More than 6 million tons of plastic waste are floating in rivers, lakes and oceans.
The volume of plastic waste globally has doubled in 20 years, from 156 million tons in 2000 to 353 million tons in 2019 and is expected to nearly triple to more than 1 billion tons
Shocking discovery: The amount of plastic in the ocean is over a million times larger than estimated
One study shows just how far the size of plastic waste is bigger than human estimates.