"Humans have produced 18.2 trillion pounds of plastics since large-scale production began in the early 1950s"

"To visualize the current plastic we made since the 1950s weighting the equivalent of one billion elephants"

"By 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than there are fish (by weight)"

"Every year, more than 100 million tons of plastics are manufactured across the globe while oil is a limited resource (here is only an estimated 40 years worth of oil left in the world)"

"Our oceans could well be void of life within the next two generations if nothing is done to stem this"