Trash in the ocean

We chat to third year Photography student Alexander Mourant about how he is helping to do

And that's a highly conservative estimate, say scientists.

This needs to stop. Scientists estimate that there are 5.25 trillion bits of plastic debris in the oceans worldwide — that's more plastic pieces than stars in our galaxy! Awareness is the first step of change.

Four fun things, including pretty skin, a newspaper revelation and kisses that made us tear up.

A crab stuck in plastic underwater shows the negative impact of single-use plastic sachets

Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of plastic leaks into our seas annually. Here, images reveal the devastating consequences plastics have on waterways and marine ecosystems around the world.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch or the pacific trash vortex is a collection of marine debris (litter that ends up in the ocean, seas, and other large bodies of water) in the North Pacific Ocean. It includes two distinct collections of debris which are formed due to the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.

Yes, also on tiny islands we have problems with trash and people littering. I have a feeling that the tourists that come here are more concerned with the nature than the locals themselves. I see more than often that local people leave their trash on the beach, where waves will take it upon the sea and usually either a bird or turtle will eat the garbage and suffocate. It saddens me all the time, that the native people are insensitive to their island environment, the prime selling point for…

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According to the Earth Times a Garbage Island is the points of convergence are where the deposition of trash occurs… by heroback

Ecological disaster of plastic garbage in the ocean. a large turtle entangled in a net and eats plastic garbage. Illustration about icon, bottles, clip, garbage, graphic - 158731535

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