Plastic plethora calls for drastic bag limits

YOU know there's something seriously wrong with the planet when parts of the Pacific Ocean have more plastic in them than marine life.

In fact, it's estimated there are 100 million tonnes of plastic circulating in the northern Pacific. That's about 2.5 per cent of all plastic items made since 1950.

It has been suggested that unless we cut our use of unnecessary disposable plastic items, the ocean dumping ground will double in size during the next 10 years. And it's already twice the size of the US continent.
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