Plastic pollution

How to consider World Aquatic Animal Day everyday. Did you know that globally, we catch 0.79 to 2.3 trillion fish every year from the wild for food? On top of that, aquaculture farms billions more each year. When fisherman catch fish in the wild, we use huge fishing nets, often catching whales and dolphins as “bycatch.” Then,

You’ve probably heard of the garbage patches floating in the ocean. In fact, there are about 4.7 to 12.8 million metric tonnes of plastic floating in our oceans right now. To put that into perspective, that’s the equivalent of dumping an entire garbage truck worth of plastic into the ocean each minute. That leaves most of us

Did you know that there’s sneaky plastic hiding inside cigarettes? Take a step outside, and it’s not long before you will see a littered cigarette end, commonly known as “butts”. Unfortunately, cigarette butts break down into tiny pieces of toxic leaching waste. There are currently an estimated 1.3 billion smokers worldwide. Somewhere around 6.5 trillion cigarette