Jak zastavit znečišťování oceánů plasty? Nejlepší by bylo nejíst ryby
Podle ekologické organizace Plastic Oceans se každoročně vyprodukuje 300 milionů tun plastu a z toho 8 milionů končí v oceánech.
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Podle ekologické organizace <anchor>Plastic Oceans</anchor> se každoročně vyprodukuje 300 milionů tun plastu a z toho 8 milionů končí v oceánech. Existují cesty, jak pronikání plastu do oceánů zabránit, pokud ale patříte mezi milovníky ryb, zřejmě vás příliš nepotěší.
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### Plastic Pollution Facts

The proliferation of plastic products in the last several decades has been extraordinary. Quite simply, humans are addicted to this nearly indestructible material. We are producing over **380 million tons** of plastic every year, and some reports indicate that up to **50% of that is for single-use** purposes – utilized for just a few moments, but on the planet for at least several hundred years. It’s estimated that more than **10 million tons** of plastic is dumped into our oceans every year.

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Plastic is cheap and incredibly versatile with properties that make it ideal for many applications. However, these qualities have also resulted in it becoming an environmental issue. We have developed a “disposable” lifestyle and estimates are that around 50% of plastic is used just once and thrown away.

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Plastic is a valuable resource in many ways,  but plastic pollution is an unnecessary and unsustainable waste of that resource.

- Packaging is the largest end-use market segment accounting for just over 40% of total plastic usage.
- Annually, approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide. More than one million bags are used every minute.
- A plastic bag has an average “working life” of 15 minutes.
- Over the last ten years we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the last century.

**Beverage Bottles Alone**

- According to the Container Recycling Institute, 100.7 billion plastic beverage bottles were sold in the U.S. in 2014, or 315 bottles per person.
- 57% of those units were plastic water bottles: 57.3 billion sold in 2014. This is up from 3.8 billion plastic water bottles sold in 1996, the earliest year for available data.
- The process of producing bottled water requires around 6 times as much water per bottle as there is in the container.
- 14% of all litter comes from beverage containers. When caps and labels are considered, the number is higher.

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