"We are really facing an environmental crisis, our oceans are full of plastic, and they're killing marine life, they are damaging our eco-systems and they are actually threatening human health."

Every day approximately 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our oceans.

(OSPAR, 2009)

12 million tonnes of plastic are poured into the ocean every year.

(Eunomia, 2016)

Scientists have recently discovered microplastics embedded deep in the Arctic ice.

(Kelly et al., 2020)

Plastics consistently make up 80% of all marine debris studied.

(IUCN, 2020)

There may now be around 5.25 trillion macro and microplastic pieces floating in the open ocean. Weighing up to 269,000 tonnes.

(Eriksen, 2014)

100,000 marine mammals and turtles and 1 million sea birds are killed by marine plastic pollution annually.

(UK Government, 2018)

Approx 5,000 items of marine plastic pollution have been found per mile of beach in the UK.

(Marine Conservation Society, 2016)

90% of plastic is produced from feedstock obtained from fossil oil and gas.

(Plastic Atlas, 2019)

Producing one tonne of plastic generates up to 2.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

(Material Economics, 2018)

Plastic production has been forecast to grow by 60% by 2030 and to treble by 2050.

(Center for International Environmental Law, 2019)

Less than a third of all plastic in the UK is recycled.

(PlasticsEurope, 2020)