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What is Plastic Pollution?

Plastic pollution has developed to be one of the most dangerous pollution ever! Europe, and Asia are now focused on stopping plastic pollution but, USA has yet to create awareness about the harmful effects of plastic pollution. Half of all plastic is single-use plastic that is used once and discarded. Plastic is durable and disintegrates very slowly. Thus, Plastic materials used to create many versatile products, become waste material that can stay in the environment for years.

Even though there are 329.06 million people in U.S, U.S. makes 300 million pieces of plastic a year. Plastic pollution has started to become so dangerous for the ocean, the environment, and the animals that live in the ocean, that it has started to make global treaty negotiations especially with the United States Of America.