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mothernaturenetwork:

50,000: Estimated number of pieces of plastic floating in every square mile of the world’s oceans
2.4 million pounds: Amount of plastic pollution that enters the world’s oceans every hour
1 million: Number of plastic cups that are consumed on airline flights in the U.S. every 6 hours
500: Number of disposable cups the average American office worker uses every year
500: Number of years a Styrofoam cup discarded today will remain in a landfill
Read more of our garbage by the numbers.

2.4 million pounds: Amount of plastic pollution that enters the world’s oceans every hour.

This makes me so sick. That’s 57.6 million pounds a day. 28,800 TONS a day.

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