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  • Illegal fishing accounts for about 20 percent of the world's catch, costing up to $23.5 billion a year.

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  • An estimated 8 million tons of plastic waste enters the ocean annually from land-based sources.

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  • The ocean covers 71% of the Earth's surface, but has received less than 1% of all philanthropic funding since 2009.

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"The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat."   — Jacque Yves Cousteau

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The State of Plastics: World Environment Day Outlook 2018
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The State of Plastics: World Environment Day Outlook 2018

The benefits of plastic are undeniable. The material is cheap, lightweight and easy to make. These qualities have led to a boom in the production of plastic over the past century. This trend will continue as global plastic production skyrockets over the next 10 to 15 years. We are already unable to cope with the amount of plastic waste we generate. Only a tiny fraction is recycled. About 13 million tonnes of plastic leak into our oceans every year, harming biodiversity, economies and, potentially, our own health. The world urgently…

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