Multimodal Project-fight against Plastic Pollution

Plastic Pollution

60% of the worlds plastic comes from Thailand,Vietnam, China, and the Philippines

Countries most wasteful

Recent estimates of the amount of plastic debris entering aqautic habitats range from 4 to 12 million metric tons

Waste per year

Multiple agencies estimate that about 20% of municipal waste is composed of plastic

Pieces of the plastic pie

Facts about plastic pollution

Visual impacts of Plastic Pollution

Pros

Cons

• Plastic is very durable and makes for a good building material
• It is easy to make
• Plastic is cheap and light weight

• Animals can easily consume it and become poisned and entagled
• Billion of pounds of plastic cover the land and sea
• Plastic can hurt industries like the fish industry by posining what the fish eats which posions what we eat