One Planet: US Plastic Pollution Is Choking The World's Oceans

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English - November 23, 2020 09:39 - 52 minutes - 3.05 KB - ★★★★★ - 59 ratings
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On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we are discussing plastic pollution and its impacts on ocean marine life. The US, the world’s largest generator of plastic waste, produced 42 million metric tons of the plastic in 2016. Globally, 100,000 marine mammals die every year as a result of plastic pollution.