SAY NO TO PLASTIC
OUTLINE: 30 years ago this stretch of ocean was teeming with fish, now it’s being flooded by a deluge of plastic waste. Each day an estimated 2.000 tons of plastic flows down this ocean. First problems is waste management. Villagers say the local government here provides no facilities to collect and dispose of the rubbish. Globally it’s estimated that two billion people have no access to proper waste management it’s estimated that annual plastic production 2050 will have increased by 90% and every minute entire rubbish truckload of plastic ends up in the ocean over a year. Another major problems is using of plastic for commercial fishing. This adds up to staggering 8 million tons the fishing industry puts more plastic in the sea than any other sector and nearly every net rope and line used in commercial fishing is made of plastic. Over a million tons of plastic fishing gear is lost or dumped at sea each year and the conseq...