Eight million metric tons of plastic waste enter the oceans every year. This equates to one garbage truck’s worth of plastic being dumped into our oceans every minute. This is tragic for many reasons. Whales, fish, seabirds, turtles and many other animals are eating the plastic and dying en masse. This, of course, was all pre-COVID-19. COVID-19 triggered an estimated global use of 129 billion face masks and 65 billion gloves every month.
— source scientificamerican.com | Aug 17, 2020