Maybe we should all be using a little less plastic? And if we are putting this much new plastic into the ocean each year, imagine how much more is in land fills.

The world dumps a jaw-dropping 17.6 billion pounds (8 billion kilograms) of new plastic into the oceans each year.

Gizmodo, from Molly Taft, https://gizmodo.com/why-trying-to-clean-up-all-the-ocean-plastic-is-pointle-1848111529