mothernaturenetwork:

How a landfill works
Maybe you’ve heard it takes 1,000 years for a plastic bag to degrade in a landfill. Here are some other facts you may not know.

anoceanactivist:

What goes in the ocean goes in you. Recent studies estimate that fish off the West Coast ingest over 12,000 tons of plastic a year. Find out how you can help turn the tide on plastic pollution at www.surfrider.org/rap.

240,000: Number of plastic bags consumed worldwide every 10 seconds
1 billion: Number of plastic bags Americans use every year
30,000 tons: Landfill waste created from plastic bags each year
Less than 1 percent: Amount of plastic bags that are recycled
$4,000: Cost of recycling 1 ton of plastic bags
$32: The amount that recycled product can be sold for

Read more about our garbage by the numbers.

(Source: mothernaturenetwork)

How to starve to death on a full stomach. The 272 pieces of rubbish pictured above were fed to this fledgling albatross along with fish caught by its mother. The plastic accumulated in its stomach until it was literally ‘too full to eat’. Careless and unregulated dumping is just one of the ways we’re killing our oceans.

(Source: anoceanactivist)