This Washington Post article proves why it is so important we all take care of the environment and keep plastics from harming the Earth.
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Late last year we learned that, thanks to human beings, the oceans are carrying at least 5 trillion pieces of floating plastic — or nearly 700 pieces per human alive on the planet. In weight, that’s some 250,000 tons of the stuff.