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World Oceans Day

A Reminder That Oceans Need Our Attention

The world is fighting with immense plastic pollution, marine experts fear that there could be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. On World Oceans Day, we look at some of the reactions on Twitter

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The oceans today have around 5 trillion pieces of plastic floating in it. In other words, the plastic waste in our oceans weigh as much as 268,000 tons, that is equal to almost 38,000 African elephants. From fishing lines to flip flops to plastic bottles and all other things plastic can be found in our oceans. Plastic has put our oceans at the brink of disaster, and what are we doing to prevent this danger? The answer is, not enough. India is among the top generators of plastic waste, it dumps around 0.60 million metric tonnes (MT) of mismanaged plastic waste into the oceans. We look at some of the comments and reactions on Twitter, about the initiative spearheaded by United Nations since 2008 in a bid to raise public awareness and how citizens can stop polluting the oceans.

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1. A fact that reminded us that we need to re-look at the extent to which we are letting plastics ruin our environment!

2. There is no option, we need to act and act now.

3. Did you know: Every year around 100,000 marine creatures and approximately 1 million sea birds die, simply, because they ate plastic.

4. It’s a crisis , our oceans are so polluted that it is making its way into the food chain. So we too end up eating plastics contaminated food.

5. Save oceans, it’s key to survival!

6. Oceans are not the world’s trash bin. People’s lives and livelihoods depend on it.

7. Oceans make Earth the living planet

The problem with plastic is its durability. Every product has a certain shelf life but that’s not the case with plastic – studies have shown that plastic takes around 100 of years to fully degrade due to the presence of complex polymers. This makes it dangerous for the environment and damaging for the ecosystem.

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