Sea of Garbage

1. Earth’s oceans are becoming clogged with plastic debris. Image credit: Ferdi Rizkiyanto.

2. Every minute, one garbage truck worth of plastic is dumped
into the ocean. Yearly, a colossal 1.4 billion pounds of trash ends
up in our beautiful oceans. Of this waste, much of it is plastic.

5. Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

6. A cotton swab is seen inside a comb jelly. This transparent animal, a planktonic predator, feeds mostly on other comb
jellies that are pulled into its large mouth and swallowed whole. (Photo: Paulo Di Oliviera/ARDEA/Caters News)

7. A wheel is seen at the bottom of the sea off the island of Thasos, Greece. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

8. Two chairs are seen at the bottom of the sea off the island of Thasos, Greece. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

9. A plastic bag floats underwater at Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia; marine life ingests such debris, with catastrophic consequences. PHOTOGRAPH BY PAUL KENNEDY, GETTY

10. A fleet against the plastic garbage in our oceans | FAIRPLANET.ORG

11. A microwave oven is seen at the bottom of the sea off the island of Sifnos, Greece. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

12. An anchor and other metal waste are seen at the bottom of the sea off the island of Thasos, Greece. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

14. A sea lion swims, wounded by nylon string and pieces of fishing net wrapped around his neck. (Photo: Paulo Di Oliviera/ARDEA/Caters News)

15. A wheel is seen at the bottom of the sea off the island of Sifnos, Greece. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

16. A glass bottle is seen at the bottom of the sea off the island of Sifnos, Greece. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

17. A tin container is seen at the bottom of the sea off the island of Thasos, Greece. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

19. A titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens, eats a
plastic object. A lot of sea animals ingest plastic
garbage because they think its edible food. (Photo:
Paulo Di Oliviera/ARDEA/Caters News)

20. This Giant Beached Whale is Filled With Plastic Trash … Literally

22. Thanks to ever-growing concentrations of trash on the high seas, almost all species that forage on the high seas (such
as this albatross) will be consuming plastic debris by 2050, a new study suggests. BD HARDESTY/MIDWAY ATOLL

23. A can of beer is seen at the bottom of the sea off the island of Thasos, Greece. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

24. Metal waste is seen at the bottom of the sea off the island of Thasos, Greece. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

25. A fish swims by an anchor at the bottom of the sea off the island of Sifnos, Greece. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

26. An Atlantic bobtail, sepiola atlantica, latches onto a cotton swab. (Composite photograph by Paulo de Oliveira/ARDEA/Caters News)

27. A shoal of fish is seen off the island of Salamina, Greece. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

28. A sea turtle entangled in a ghost net. Photo by Francis Perez

29. An octopus is seen at the bottom of the sea off the island of Sifnos, Greece. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

30. Two chairs are seen at the bottom of the sea off the island of Thasos, Greece. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

31. Scientists estimate that more than 5 million pieces of plastic are floating in the world’s oceans. Photo credit: iStock / Fergregory

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