Hello, I'm the OUTDOOR PROFESSOR from DiscoveringTheOutdoors.com/ Here's your outdoor tip on fighting plastic pollution. Plastic is here with us to stay and surrounds us in the form of grocery bags, food containers, drink bottles and a variety of plastic products. More plastic was made in the past ten years than in previously in our history. And unfortunately it’s finding its way into our outdoors and oceans. It may be hard to believe, but billions of pounds of plastic can be found floating in the ocean making up almost 40 percent of the ocean’s surface. About 300 million tons of plastic are made each year and about 300 thousand tons of that production eventually end up in the ocean. Thousands of seabirds, turtles, seals and other marine animals are killed each year after eating plastic or getting snarled in it. The EPA says that every piece of plastic that has ever been made still exists. Ocean pollution starts on land and with its low density, plastic is carried by wind and rai
