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The ocean is one of the most unexplored parts of our planet, with a magnitude of undiscovered species and mysteries. It turns out from the studies conducted over the last few decades, this magnificent environment is under serious threat from human intervention, with plastics set to outnumber fish by 2050.

SHOCKING OCEAN POLLUTION STATISTICS

. 100 million marine animals die each year from plastic waste alone.
. 100,000 marine animals die from getting entangled in plastic yearly - this is just the creatures we find!
. 1 in 3 marine mammal species get found entangled in litter, 12-14,000 tons of plastic are ingested by North Pacific fish yearly.
. In the past 10 years, we've made more plastic than the last century. By 2050, the pollution of fish will be outnumbered by our dumped plastic.
. The largest trash site on the planet is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, twice the surface area of Texas, it outnumbers sea life there 6 to 1.
. China is ranked #1 for mismanaged waste and plastics. However, the US is in the top 20 with a more significant waste per person contributions.
. 300 Million tons of plastic gets created yearly, and this weighs the same as the entire human population, and 50% is single-use only.
. There are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic waste estimated to be in our oceans. 269,000 tons float, 4 billion microfibers per km² dwell below the surface.
. 70% of our debris sinks into the ocean's ecosystem, 15% floats, and 15% lands on our beaches.
. In terms of plastic, 8.3 million tons are discarded in the sea yearly. Of which, 236,000 are ingestible microplastics that marine creatures mistake for food.
. Plastics take 500-1000 years to degrade; currently 79% is sent to landfills or the ocean, while only 9% is recycled, and 12% gets incinerated.
. 1950-1998 over 100 nuclear blast tests occurred in our oceans. 
• 500 marine locations are now recorded as dead zones globally, currently the size of the United Kingdom's surface (245,000 km²). . 80% of global marine pollution comes from agriculture runoff, untreated sewage, discharge of nutrients and pesticides.
. 90% of the worldwide ocean debris comes from 10 rivers alone.

Marine life, as we know it, is suffering irreparable damage from the chemical pollution of the waters and the millions of tons of mismanaged waste dumped in the oceans each year. The result is a planetary crisis with over 100 million marine animal's lives get lost every year, and the decay of the ocean's ecosystem.

Almost 1,000 species of marine animals get impacted by ocean pollution, and we now have over 500 locations recorded as dead zones where marine life cannot exist. How did this happen, what is causing sons the most damage, find out everything in the marine pollution statistics roundup given on the last page. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a floating island of debris, accumulated in the North Pacific Ocean by an extensive system of currents called gyres. It is built up from two other waste patches, the western garbage
patch near Japan and the eastern garbage patch near America's west coast near California and Hawaii. The North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone links the east and western garbage patches, acting as a highway for waste to move from one to the other. Because of this, a small item of debris dropped near California can travel across to Japan, then eventually get sucked up by these swirling garbage patch vortexes.

The great pacific garbage patch size is quite shocking. These patches of trash are said to be twice the size of Texas and float on the surface but do drop mavin several meters into the ocean in places, which makes the correct size challenging to measure. The The world's largest garbage site is mainly made up of microplastics creating a vast cloud, with newer items of debris that haven't broken down as much floating around like chunks in a soup. The great pacific garbage patch effects on marine life are extremely significant.