By 2050, the world's oceans will contain more plastic than fish

One third of all plastic ends up in the world's ecosystems, but what can we do?

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If we carry on producing plastic – and failing to dispose of it properly – at predicted rates, the plastic waste in the ocean will weigh more than all the world's fish by 2050, says a report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

By then, it predicts, we'll be making more than three times as much plastic as we did in 2014 and one third of it will end up in the world's ecosystems.

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