Plastic pollution in our oceans: Find the bottle to make a change

For every minute you spend reading this short piece, a million plastic bottles will be sold. That figure will jump by 20% within three years.

Plastic pollution in our oceans: Find the bottle to make a change

For every minute you spend reading this short piece, a million plastic bottles will be sold. That figure will jump by 20% within three years.

More than 480bn plastic drinking bottles were sold worldwide in 2016, up from about 300bn a decade ago, according to Euromonitor International’s global packaging trends report.

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