In the 21st century, plastic is as ubiquitous as our daily necessities.

Although all kinds of plastic products provide us with great convenience, but now, the world's annual output of plastic waste per billion tons, leading the earth into a huge plastic pollution crisis...

However, even so, people still hold the mentality of "out of sight, out of net" and continue to use plastic products in large quantities, regardless of the rapid growth of plastic pollution is quietly destroying the ecological environment of the earth...

 

Just recently, the world's most representative National Geographic magazine published an activity on its official website, which caused a great response.

The project's theme is "PLANET OR PLASTIC", with the same name as the June issue of the magazine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The cover is a plastic bag in the sea, showing a corner of it on the sea surface, which means that the Marine plastic pollution that humans have seen so far is just the tip of the iceberg. The creative idea of this cover made netizens applaud, but when they saw the specific content inside, they were shocked...

 

National Geographic had earlier sent photographers around the world looking for images of the subject, trying to make plastic pollution a real problem in a more visual way,After collating the photos sent back by the photographers, they released this stunning collection of images on their website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then, take a look at what these images reveal about plastic pollution...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the photographer a landfill in Spain a photo taken, this poor stork was almost plastic bags in the whole body, if was not discovered by photographer and help it to remove the plastic bags, it may be choked to death in the near future, however, life in so many plastic area, even after the freed,There is still a high chance that it could get caught in plastic again and die.

 

The plastic we throw into the trash can may end up unintentionally in nature...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a loggerhead turtle that the photographer found in the Mediterranean Sea. It was entangled in a plastic fishing net discarded by humans. Although it could barely raise its head to breathe, if the photographer hadn't rescued it, it would have starved to death.

 

So far, 700 species of Marine animals have been reported to be eating or becoming entangled in plastic waste.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The creatures in order to avoid being washed at ordinary times, hippocampus will capture seaweed or tail to do anchor coral, and photographer sumbawa island Marine pollution in India, was only the plastic cotton swabs as a lifeline in the stream of small seahorse, see this photo let people love dearly, in the stream of hippocampus in extremely easy to tired to death, because of the rapid swings the finSo the more trash there is in the ocean, the greater the chance that seahorses will mistake plastic for a fixed object, and their numbers will drastically decrease.

 

 

 

 

 

At a landfill in Harar, Ethiopia, a pack of hyenas were caught on camera scurring into the rubbish dump after hearing the sound of a garbage truck being dumped.

 

Background picture shows that a prairie has been garbage filled with more than half, and this is only a microcosm of numerous contaminated grassland, by 2015, the world has produced 6.9 billion tons of plastic waste, whereas only 9% are recycled, 12% were burned, processing, and 79% in landfills or accumulate in the environment, and the nature of plastic degradation time need more than 450 years......

 

 

 

 

 

The hermit crab was photographed off the coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa using a plastic bottle cap to protect its soft belly. The phenomenon has been caused by beachgoers picking up the shells that the crabs normally use and dumping their rubbish on the shore.

 

According to statistics, 73% of beach waste worldwide is plastic, mostly bottles, bottle caps, food wrappers and shopping bags, which have a terrible impact on the environment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the foot of a bridge on a tributary of the Buriganga River in Bangladesh, the photographer caught this family plucking plastic bottles from a rubbish dump and selling them to a recycling station for $100 a month.

 

 

 

 

And in Bangladesh's capital dhaka, also is the Buriganga river, there are many in the collection clean plastic family, after they put plastic dry clean, sold to local recyclers, incredibly, engaged in the informal recycling industry in dhaka about 120000 people, that is to say, human produce plastic garbage,Has turned plastic recycling into an industry, and it's even sadder that only 9% of the world's plastic recycling is done mostly by informal recyclers...

 

 

 

 

 

The photographer captured the scene at a recycling station in Valensula, Philippines, where trucks were filled with plastic bottles scavenged from the streets by scavengers...

 

 

 

 

 

This statistical graph shows the dramatic increase in plastic use worldwide since 1950, and it's a daunting slope.

 

 

 

 

 

In recent 130 years, the world is very representative of national geographic magazine recorded the stories of our planet, including the amazing scenery on earth and it faces the threat of the heartbreaking photos released this time, to show us the annual output of 9 million tons of plastic waste of bad effects on the environment and biology,It's also a wake-up call to the global plastic crisis.

 

 

 

 

National Geographic has launched a series of projects to raise awareness of the plastic crisis by using science and technology to collect and record data on plastic waste near land and rivers and publish it in the magazine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How serious is plastic pollution?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

· Plastic is the second largest source of stored waste in landfills
· More than 8 million tons of plastic waste ends up in the ocean each year
· Every minute a big garbage truck dumps its rubbish into the ocean
· More than 8 billion tons of plastic have been produced worldwide
· 9% is recycled and 90% is buried, burned and thrown into the sea
· Plastic pollution has reached the North and South Poles, and the last pure land on Earth has been lost
· Plastic pollution produced by humans can ultimately damage their own health
· Microplastics trap bacteria and contain toxic chemicals that can cause irreversible damage to the human body
· Plastic waste has also been found in the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth, at 10,928 meters deep
· Every year, more than a million Marine creatures stop breathing because of plastic pollution
· By 2050, the combined weight of plastic waste in the oceans will exceed the total weight of fish
· According to a recent study by the University of Newcastle in Australia, the global average person ingests 5 grams of plastic in their body every week, which is equivalent to the weight    of a credit card
· As of November 25, 2018, there was an estimated 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in the ocean, 92% of which was microplastics
· Plastic products may remain undegraded for centuries, scientists say.Plastic pollution crisis could lead to 'permanent pollution of the planet'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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