Ocean Pollution Facts
- Plastics are the most common element found in the ocean today
- 4 billion pounds of plastic wind up in our oceans every year
- Single-use plastics are the most common items found
- The Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of Texas
- Ocean pollutants kill more than one million sea birds every year
- Estimates show that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean
- China and Indonesia are the worlds biggest contributors of plastic pollution
- Aprox. one truckload of plastic enters the ocean every single minute
- There’s enough plastic in the ocean to circle the earth 400 times
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Global Warming Facts
- Average surface temperature of earth has risen about 1.62ºF since the late 19th Century
- Most of the warming in that period has been in the last 35 years, with the 5 warmest years on record taking place since 2010
- Oceans absorb the majority of the increased heat of the planet
- Greenland lost an average of 286 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2016
- Antarctica lost an average of 127 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2016
- Rate of Antarctica ice mass loss has tripled in the last decade
- Global sea level rose about 8 inches in the last century
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