Sheet after sheet amounting to more than 88 pounds of plastic was pulled out of a dead whale’s intestines in the Philippines. Clogged-up drainage systems exacerbated the impacts of deadly floods in Bangladesh during the devastating monsoon seasons.
Once beautiful lakes and rivers in India and China are now forever tainted by the irresponsible disposal of men. It is irrefutable that the issue of plastic waste has far-reaching consequences. Yet, this exact problem has been tactfully evaded for decades by governments and entrepreneurs alike.
In 2017, the United Nations deemed that…